{"id":4026,"date":"2010-12-09T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2010-12-09T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:20:14","slug":"language-and-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"Language and thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article I came across today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/11\/101103111206.htm\">Science Daily<\/a> discusses a study which found that language can affect attitudes and thoughts. The study found bilingual speakers of Spanish and English in California showed a distinct preference for Spanish names and words when tested in Spanish, but no such preference when tested in English, and that bilingual speakers of Arabic and French in Morocco showed a similar preference for Arabic names and words when tested in Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>These findings suggest that learning other languages perhaps makes you less likely to be prejudiced towards other people, at least when your speaking their languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article I came across today on Science Daily discusses a study which found that language can affect attitudes and thoughts. The study found bilingual speakers of Spanish and English in California showed a distinct preference for Spanish names and words when tested in Spanish, but no such preference when tested in English, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}