Does
language we’re using (reading, speaking) shape our decisions? Boaz Keyser and Albert Costa make the case
that whether we’re operating in our mother tongue or what for you is a foreign
language, your decisions may differ.
Reporting on
research in the journal PloS One they found that are responses
to moral dilemmas, in this case whether it was acceptable to sacrifice one
person to save many, changed depending on
the language used to solve te problem. Read their intriguing article “Our moral
tongue” published in the international edition of the New York Times.
Move this
idea from a philosophical discussion to our business lives. While a
global group, a company, may use one language to operate diverse teams likely represent multiple mother
tongues.
How does
that impact decisions that are made?
Would they change if the language changed? I wonder.
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