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November 17, 2010

Language may help create, not just convey, thoughts and feelings

Language may help create, not just convey, thoughts and feelings

The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts, but our implicit preferences as well. That's the finding of a study by psychologists at Harvard University, who found that bilingual individuals' opinions of different ethnic groups were affected by the language in which they took a test examining their biases and predilections.

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