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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Joshua Knobe, decision-making processes, language, Knobe Effect

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

Abstract

People encounter and make decisions constantly. Trivially, we may need to decide which color blue better matches our eyes or, significantly, we may be asked to make a decision as participants in a jury, a decision that could affect the rest of someone’s life. Some of the more important and influential decisions we make are moral decisions. There has been a lot of interesting research analyzing and discussing moral decisions and the studies range in discipline from neuroscience to philosophy. Some of this research has suggested that language can play an important role in our decision-making processes as well as in our perceptions of events, people and ideas (Boroditsky 2011). Language use can effect our perception of differences in the qualities of colors or even affect the way we understand fault and causality in a legal case.

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