外国语言对道德决策中的元推理的影响
Zhimin Hu1,2, Beatriz Martín-Luengo3,4, Eduardo Navarrete1
1Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua, Italy.
Journal of cognition
|January 12, 2026
概括
使用外语可能不会改变道德决策,但它确实会影响元认知. 用新语言推理会降低对的感觉,增加不确定性,并促使更多的分析.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
背景情况:
- 道德外语效应 (mFLE) 理论认为,外语使用通过减少情感性和增强分析推理来促进功利主义.
- 尽管在认知控制和监测方面具有重要作用,但在mFLE中超认知的作用尚未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 研究外语使用对道德决策过程中的元认知过程的影响.
- 测试外语推理降低正确感 (FOR) 的假设,增加不确定性和重新评估.
主要方法:
- 采用决策重新决策范式来比较母语和外语中的道德困境反应.
- 线性混合效应模型分析了对决策的影响,决策时间,重新决定时间,FOR,最终信任判断 (FJC) 和逆转.
- 语言能力被检查为主持人.
主要成果:
- 对于道德决定或倾向,没有发现有意义的mFLE.
- 外语使用显著增加了决策时间,降低了FOR和FJC,并增加了决策逆转 (研究1).
- 较低的FOR始终与更长的重新决定时间和更高的逆转概率相关,表明增强的分析思维.
结论:
- 外国语言的使用影响元认知监测和控制,而不是改变核心的道德判断.
- 研究结果表明,语言能力和困境类型可能会对mFLE对元认知的影响产生细微差别.
- 这项研究强调了语言对多语言决策中的认知和元认知过程的影响.
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