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| Title | Article: Switching Languages Can Also Switch Personality |
| Body | From http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINSP4652020080624 Switching languages can also switch personality: study June 24, 2008 People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study. 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. They found significant changes in self perception or "frame-shifting" in bicultural participants -- women who participate in both Latino and Anglo culture. Read the entire summary at http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINSP4652020080624 . The original paper is available for purchase from http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/586914 . |
| Source | Reuters |
| Inputdate | 2008-06-29 10:43:43 |
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