Sunday, October 15, 2006

Brain Change Through a Second Language

"(University of Texas) Psychologists have discovered that people take on the characteristics of foreign nationals when they switch into their language... According to research, using different languages alters basic characteristics traits such as extroversion and neuroticism...

"The results (using the results of personality tests on almost 170,000 people) showed that English-speaking Americans are typically more conscientious, agreeable and outgoing than native Mexicans, but also less neurotic." /Telegraph/

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