A person’s language may influence how he thinks about other people


“The language we speak can change the way we think about other people,” says Ward. The results are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Danziger himself learned both Hebrew and English as a child. “I am a bilingual and I believe that I actually respond differently in Hebrew than I do in English. I think in English I’m more polite than I am in Hebrew,” he says. “People can exhibit different types of selves in different environments. This suggests that language can serve as a cue to bring forward different selves.”

Now I realize why I speak soft and handle things better when i speak in Tamil and I also notice that mess up things when I use English at times.

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