
Our Language Affects What We See
A new look at “the Russian blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception
Catherine Caldwell-Harris, associate professor at Boston University, directs the Psycholinguistics Laboratory in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She brings her cognitive science training to a range of interdisciplinary questions, including cross-cultural psychology, foreign language learning, immigration, using technology to facilitate language learning in autistic children, understanding humor in another language and why people believe or do not believe in God.

Our Language Affects What We See
A new look at “the Russian blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception

Your Language Shapes Your Morality
In another language, your own thoughts might be foreign to you

In a Foreign Language, “Killing 1 to Save 5” May Be More Permissible
Language shapes our moral judgments