Impulse and inhibition: The complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion - Peer2Peer

Impulse and inhibition: The complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion

Feb 10, 2026

If you're bilingual, moral choices can often feel more urgent and emotionally charged in one language yet distant and rational in another. This raises an intriguing question: does language merely shape how we express our thoughts, or can it also influence what we judge to be right or wrong?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-impulse-inhibition-complex-ways-bilingual.html

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