ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Non-Native Speakers Improve More Quickly during Psychotherapy Compared to Native Speakers: A Test of the Emotional Expression Explanation
- Linh Nguyen
St. John's University - Saniya Tabani
St. John's University - Alexandra Checkers
St. John's University - Danielle Miller
St. John's University - William Chaplin
St. John's University
Abstract
We found that non-native speakers improve more quickly during psychotherapy than native speakers. We hypothesize that this unexpected finding resulted because people tend to be less guarded in their non-native language. We test this hypothesis by comparing response extremeness to personality and emotion scales between people’s native and non-native language.
Bilingualism
