How the Language We Speak Influences the Ways We Make Decisions

This research project aims to experimentally test how communicating in different languages influences the way people think and make decisions. Research suggests that the language people use during communication can influence their thinking and decision-making processes. However, our understanding of why these differences occur remains limited. This project seeks to generate new scientific insights into the mechanisms behind these language-driven differences in decision making.

Main Learning Outcomes:

• Learning how to design and program randomized experiments.
• Learning how to design experimental materials.
• Learning how to manage recruitment of participants.
• Learning how to preregister experiments.
• Learning how to collect quantitative data.
• Learning how to clean, analyze and interpret quantitative data.
• Learning how to document experimental work.

Essential and Preferred Skills:

• Some experience or interest in working experimentally.
• Some experience or interest in recruitment of participants.
• Some experience or interest in programming experiments using Qualtrics.
• Interest in conducting statistical analysis.
• Interest in research on decision making and/or language use and communication.
• Preferred but not necessary: Fluency in spoken and written Cantonese.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.