Modulatory role of foreign language experience on the Moral Foreign Language Effect

Abstract The Moral Foreign Language Effect (MFLE) is characterized by increased utilitarian decision-making when bilinguals respond to moral dilemmas in their foreign language. While previous research has given us a better understanding of this phenomenon, few studies have investigated how language experience influences the MFLE. present study whether differences proficiency, immersion, or dominance modulated emergence Mandarin–English bilingual young adults responded series either native Participants also provided ratings permissibility and distress after reading each dilemma. We report dilemma-specific MFLE that was experience. Most significant observation separable dimensions interact modulating manner dilemma-specific. These findings emphasize importance considering across multiple investigating