The language you speak affects your personality


	The language you speak affects your personality

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92b393fc-6ac8-4195-aba1-b48a7357dcc9/4E7CA3D3-8B54-4C7D-9DA6-685B2FA109E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/" href="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/" style="font-size: 11px;">content4.clipmarks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><DIV align="left" class="TitleBar" name="dvTitleBar"><SPAN title="expand clipmark" class="ExpLink"><IMG height="11" width="12" border="0" alt="" src="http://content4.clipmarks.com/images/exp_grey3.png" /></SPAN><SPAN class="SourcePage"><IMG height="19" width="19" alt="" src="http://content4.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" />clipped from: </SPAN><A title="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624" class="SourcePage" target="_blank">www.reuters.com</A><SPAN>   </SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><H1>Switching languages can also switch personality: study</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><P>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.<SPAN id="midArticle_byline"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><P>Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A. Peracchio from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied groups of Hispanic women, all of whom were bilingual, but with varying degrees of cultural identification.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><P>"Language can be a cue that activates different culture-specific frames," the researchers said in a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><P>The researchers said the women classified themselves as more assertive when they spoke Spanish than when they spoke English.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content4.clipmarks.com/content/2113B1B1-7071-4D0A-BDC7-50AE9880CF45/"><P>"In the Spanish-language sessions, informants perceived females as more self-sufficient and extroverted," they said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4E7CA3D3-8B54-4C7D-9DA6-685B2FA109E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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