Learning Another Language Boosts Your Ability to Make Rational Decisions

Time to brush off that textbook - and not just because you’ll be able to communicate with German speakers. Researchers from the University of Chicago found that learning a foreign language may boost people’s ability to make rational decisions.

Researchers believe that a second language can help people think more rationally. “We propose that these effects arise because a foreign language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than a native tongue does,” the authors said.

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