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

November 17, 2010 by

The language we speak may influence not only our thoughts, but our implicit preferences as well. Psychologists 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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