Press – Multilingualism & Decision-Making Lab

Oct 28, 2023 – CNBC: UChicago psychologist shares his No.1 brain hack for critical thinking and memory skills: Think in a foreign language
Jan 17, 2023 – Yourtango: How To Know When You Should (And Shouldn’t) Apologize
Dec 22, 2022 – ZME Science: Humans think more rationally in a foreign language, study finds
Nov 29, 2022 – University of Chicago Hong Kong Campus: Episode 55 – Boaz Keysar: “You got to prepare.”
Aug 10, 2022 – Leeds University Business School: “Alexa, does listening to you change my risk perception?”
Jun 20, 2022 – CcsTi-Larotonde: 10 Benefits of Learning a Second Language
May 31, 2022 – Undark: When Accents Speak Louder Than Words
May 19, 2022 – Grammarly: How Being Bilingual Makes You Smarter
Feb 3, 2022 – Chartered Professional Accountants (British Columbia): Breaking down communication breakdowns
January 18, 2022 – Sci Dev Net: COVID-19 vaccine uptake ‘a matter of words’.
January 11, 2022 – Medical News Today: Vaccine hesitancy: Why language matters.
March 26, 2021 – Psychological Science: Lab alumni Sayuri Hayakawa receives Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Stars Award.
Feb 19, 2021 – UChicago Center for Health Administration Studies: UChicago Psych Prof. Boaz Keysar: The Impact of Foreign Language Use on Health-Related Decisions
September 28, 2019 – Next Gov: How we can avoid escalating arguments.
September 26, 2019 – Phys Org: Study suggests that many conflicts could be avoided with more deliberation.
Jan 24, 2019 – Time: Doctors make mistakes. A new documentary explores what happens when they do – and how to fix it.
Feb 23, 2018 – QZ: Why you’re more likely to make an immoral decision when speaking a foreign language
Feb 19, 2018 – Financial Times: Do we make better decisions in a foreign language?
Jan 1, 2018 – Psychology Today: Explaining the moral foreign-language effect
Aug 17, 2017 – Daily Mail: Struggling to make a tough decision? Try it in a foreign language: Switching from your native tongue removes emotional interference, experts say.
Aug 8, 2016 – Freakonomics – Is learning a foreign language really worth it? [PODCAST]
Mar 11, 2016 – The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals
May 14, 2015 – The Tribune – Kids exposed to multiple languages become better communicators
May 11, 2015 – ScienceDaily – Children exposed to multiple languages may be better natural communicators
Jun 20, 2014 – New York Times – Our moral tongue: Moral judgments depend on what language we’re speaking
May 20, 2014 – Le Monde – Le langage de nos émotions
May 17, 2014 – The Economist – Gained in translation: When moral dilemmas are posed in a foreign language, people become more coolly utilitarian
May 12, 2014 – The Wall Street Journal – Moral decisions may depend on your language
May 22, 2012 – ABC News – Reduce dumb decisions by thinking in a foreign language
Apr 26, 2012 – Daily Mail – Pensez-vous Francais? Thinking in a foreign language ‘leads to more rational decision making’
Apr 25, 2012 – Bloomberg Business – To avoid stupid mistakes, think in French
Apr 24, 2012 – Wired – Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational
Mar 14, 2011 – ScienceDaily – Couples sometimes communicate no better than strangers
Jan 24, 2011 – US News – Close relationships sometimes mask poor communication
Jan 21, 2011 – The Telegraph – Your wife doesn’t understand you because you are too close, study suggests
Jan 20, 2011 – The Indian Express – Couples communicate no better than strangers: Study
Aug 27, 2010 – New York Times – A failure to communicate
Jul 28, 2010 – ABC News – The truth behind thick accents: Foreigners judged less truthful
Jul 21, 2010 – Daily Mail – Why foreign accents make speakers seem less honest (…it’s just too hard for us to try to understand)
Jul 21, 2010 – Scientific American – Why the brain doubts a foreign accent
Jul 20, 2010 – USA Today – Study: Americans with accents judged less credible than native speakers
Aug 20, 2007 – Canada National Post – Perspective tied to culture, researcher says
Jul 18, 2007 – NBC News – Americans can’t step into shoes of others
Jul 17, 2007 – China Daily – Grow up in a collective society and ‘know’ others better