No foreign language effect in Schizotypy: Evidence from German-English bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has suggested that fewer schizophrenic and schizotypal traits are reported in a second language than a mother tongue. Such results make sense in the light of the so-called Foreign Language Effect (FLE), whereby bilinguals make more rational decisions and are less influenced by emotions and biases in a learned second language (L2) than a mother tongue (L1). However, this previous research is to date very limited, and apart from one large-scale quantitative study is based primarily on anecdotal evidence. In the study reported here, we gave German-English bilinguals the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire in either English or German. If doing the questionnaire in an L2 (here English) makes participants think more rationally and less emotionally, then fewer schizotypal trai

SUBMITTER: Samuel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12719037 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature