eprintid: 588 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/05/88 datestamp: 2022-03-18 23:55:09 lastmod: 2022-03-18 23:55:09 status_changed: 2022-03-18 23:55:09 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Ivaz, Lela creators_name: Griffin, Kim L. creators_name: Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni creators_id: creators_id: kim.griffin@uneatlantico.es creators_id: title: Self-bias and the emotionality of foreign languages ispublished: pub subjects: uneat_ps divisions: uneatlantico_produccion_cientifica full_text_status: public keywords: Foreign language effects; self-bias; non-native languages; emotionality abstract: Foreign language contexts impose a relative psychological and emotional distance in bilinguals. In our previous studies, we demonstrated that the use of a foreign language changes the strength of the seemingly automatic emotional responses in the self-paradigm, showing a robust asymmetry in the self-bias effect in a native and a foreign language context. Namely, larger effects were found in the native language, suggesting an emotional blunting in the foreign language context. In the present study, we investigated the source of these effects by directly comparing whether they stem from a language’s foreignness versus its non-nativeness. We employed the same self-paradigm (a simple perceptual matching task of associating simple geometric shapes with the labels “you,” “friend,” and “other”), testing unbalanced Spanish–Basque–English trilinguals. We applied the paradigm to three language contexts: native, non-native but contextually present (i.e., non-native local), and non-native foreign. Results showed a smaller self-bias only in the foreign language pointing to the foreign-language-induced psychological/emotional distance as the necessary prerequisite for foreign language effects. Furthermore, we explored whether perceived emotional distance towards foreign languages in Spanish–English bilinguals modulates foreign language effects. Results suggest that none of the different indices of emotional distance towards the foreign language obtained via questionnaires modulated the self-biases in the foreign language contexts. Our results further elucidate the deeply rooted and automatic nature of foreign-language-driven differential emotional processing date: 2019 publication: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology volume: 72 number: 1 pagerange: 76-89 id_number: doi:10.1177/1747021818781017 refereed: TRUE issn: 1747-0218 official_url: http://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818781017 access: open language: en citation: Artículo Materias > Psicología Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Producción Científica Abierto Inglés Foreign language contexts impose a relative psychological and emotional distance in bilinguals. In our previous studies, we demonstrated that the use of a foreign language changes the strength of the seemingly automatic emotional responses in the self-paradigm, showing a robust asymmetry in the self-bias effect in a native and a foreign language context. Namely, larger effects were found in the native language, suggesting an emotional blunting in the foreign language context. In the present study, we investigated the source of these effects by directly comparing whether they stem from a language’s foreignness versus its non-nativeness. We employed the same self-paradigm (a simple perceptual matching task of associating simple geometric shapes with the labels “you,” “friend,” and “other”), testing unbalanced Spanish–Basque–English trilinguals. We applied the paradigm to three language contexts: native, non-native but contextually present (i.e., non-native local), and non-native foreign. Results showed a smaller self-bias only in the foreign language pointing to the foreign-language-induced psychological/emotional distance as the necessary prerequisite for foreign language effects. Furthermore, we explored whether perceived emotional distance towards foreign languages in Spanish–English bilinguals modulates foreign language effects. Results suggest that none of the different indices of emotional distance towards the foreign language obtained via questionnaires modulated the self-biases in the foreign language contexts. Our results further elucidate the deeply rooted and automatic nature of foreign-language-driven differential emotional processing metadata Ivaz, Lela; Griffin, Kim L. y Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni mail SIN ESPECIFICAR, kim.griffin@uneatlantico.es, SIN ESPECIFICAR (2019) Self-bias and the emotionality of foreign languages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (1). pp. 76-89. ISSN 1747-0218 document_url: http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/588/1/1747021818781017.pdf