The Impact of Foreign Language on Meta-Reasoning in Moral Decisions.

J Cogn · 2026 · PMC12785753 · PMID 41523086

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approached significancep = .067so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The effect of proficiency approached significance ( β = –0.05, 95% CI [–0.10, 0.00], p = .067). 5.2 Decision times Decision time .

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

However, and in contrast to Study 1, although the patterns mirror that of Study 1, FORs and FJCs are lower in the foreign language than native language, these differences did not reach statistical significance.

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