Switching languages can also switch personality: study


	Switching languages can also switch personality: study

Faby007

6-27-2008 12:20 AM

75 views

tags:

language, languages, culture

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

View the Top Clips from June 27, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/472b3fe6-316b-4a2e-8ba4-7d3fd087180c/6A0370C9-25AA-4484-A537-910B3A947AEE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624"><H1>Switching languages can also switch personality: study</H1>
	<DIV class="timestampHeader">Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:33am EDT</DIV><DIV id="headerTools"> </DIV>
<SPAN moduleid="460314" modulename="Article Tools" name="trackingEnabledModule" id="trackingEnabledModule">
<INPUT type="hidden" id="CurrentSize" name="CurrentSize" value="13" />
<DIV class="articleTools" id="atools">
<DIV class="articleUtilities" id="autilities">
			<A href="javascript:commonPopup('/do/emailArticle?articleId=USSP4652020080624', 540, 600, 1, 'emailPopup')" id="toolEmail" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">Email</A> | <A target="printPopup" href="http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USSP4652020080624" id="toolPrint" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">Print</A> | <DIV id="shareLink">Share</DIV> | <A href="javascript:commonPopup('http://license.icopyright.net/3.5398?icx_id=2008-06-24T153345Z_01_SP46520_RTRUKOC_0_US-LANGUAGES-PERSONALITIES.xml&icx2_id=USSP4652020080624&section=lifestyleMolt', 580, 635, 1, 'purchasePopup')" id="toolReprints" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">Reprints</A> | <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" id="toolSingle" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">Single Page</A>| <SPAN id="toolRecommend"><SPAN id="toolRecommend__USSP4652020080624"><SPAN id="recommendationContainer__USSP4652020080624"><SPAN id="recommendText__USSP4652020080624"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Recommend</A></SPAN> <SPAN>(<SPAN id="recommendCount__USSP4652020080624">12</SPAN>)</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
</DIV>
	<DIV id="textSizer" class="articleTextSizerFull">
			[<A class="control" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">-</A>]
			<A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">Text</A>
			[<A class="control" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" modid="lifestyleMolt|Text|460314_Article Tools">+</A>]
	</DIV>
	</DIV>
	<DIV class="linebreak"></DIV>
	</SPAN>
      <DIV id="resizeableText">
<SPAN id="midArticle_start">
		<DIV class="inlineRelatedContent">
<SPAN moduleid="460325" modulename="Related Video" name="trackingEnabledModule" id="trackingEnabledModule">
</SPAN>
      <DIV><DIV id="sphereSideVideo">		</DIV></DIV><SPAN moduleid="460326" modulename="Related News" name="trackingEnabledModule" id="trackingEnabledModule">
</SPAN>
      <DIV><DIV id="sphereSideNews">		</DIV>
<DIV class="hidden" id="sphereSideAttribution"><DIV class="dividerInlineH"> </DIV><SPAN class="timestamp">powered by <IMG border="0" alt="Sphere" src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/images/iconSphere.gif" /> Sphere</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
</DIV>
	</SPAN>
<P>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.<SPAN id="midArticle_byline"></SPAN></P><SPAN id="midArticle_0"></SPAN>
<P>Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A. Peracchio from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied groups of Hispanic women, all of whom were bilingual, but with varying degrees of cultural identification.</P><SPAN id="midArticle_1"></SPAN>
<P>They found significant changes in self perception or "frame-shifting" in bicultural participants -- women who participate in both Latino and Anglo culture.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6A0370C9-25AA-4484-A537-910B3A947AEE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Faby007

Today's Top Clips