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Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition?
Debiasing is a method of improving people’s decisions by reducing their reliance on salient intuitions causing them to behave suboptimally or biasedly. However, many of the known debiasing techniques have limited effectiveness or can only remedy a one-shot decision, rather than having a lasting impa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10299445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37367505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11060103 |
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description | Debiasing is a method of improving people’s decisions by reducing their reliance on salient intuitions causing them to behave suboptimally or biasedly. However, many of the known debiasing techniques have limited effectiveness or can only remedy a one-shot decision, rather than having a lasting impact. In this work, I focus on the role of metacognition in debiasing decision-making and discuss how it can be better understood through the lens of the foreign language effect. The foreign language effect suggests that using a foreign language can sometimes benefit people’s decision-making without providing them with additional information or instructions regarding the task. However, we do not fully understand how the foreign language effect works and its limitations. I conclude by urging scientists to research this effect with the hope of having a lasting positive impact on society. |
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spelling | pubmed-102994452023-06-28 Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? Białek, Michał J Intell Essay Debiasing is a method of improving people’s decisions by reducing their reliance on salient intuitions causing them to behave suboptimally or biasedly. However, many of the known debiasing techniques have limited effectiveness or can only remedy a one-shot decision, rather than having a lasting impact. In this work, I focus on the role of metacognition in debiasing decision-making and discuss how it can be better understood through the lens of the foreign language effect. The foreign language effect suggests that using a foreign language can sometimes benefit people’s decision-making without providing them with additional information or instructions regarding the task. However, we do not fully understand how the foreign language effect works and its limitations. I conclude by urging scientists to research this effect with the hope of having a lasting positive impact on society. MDPI 2023-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10299445/ /pubmed/37367505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11060103 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Essay Białek, Michał Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title | Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title_full | Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title_fullStr | Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title_full_unstemmed | Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title_short | Why Should We Study the Foreign Language Effect: Debiasing through Affecting Metacognition? |
title_sort | why should we study the foreign language effect: debiasing through affecting metacognition? |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10299445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37367505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11060103 |
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