Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Language Influences Perception of Impulsive Tendencies of Depressed Individuals
- Huaixuan Huang
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - Huaixuan Huang
The Colorado College - Kristi Erdal
Colorado College
Abstract
In a bilingual population, thinking in East Asian languages (compared to English) led to a depressed individual perceived to be more likely to lose control under negative emotion, seek sensation, and not think before acting. With a typical English name, such individual was perceived to be less likely to persevere.
Psychopathology