HAI Lab members' article in ''International Journal of Bilingualism''

On July 11, the “International Journal of Bilingualism” (200 points on the MEiN list) published the article entitled “Bilinguals are less susceptible to the bias blind spot in their second language,” co-written by members of HAI Lab (Humans and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; https://hai.ue.poznan.pl) – dr Pawel Niszczota from the Department of International Finance and Magdalena Pawlak, a graduate student at the Institute of International Business and Economics and a researcher from the University of Wroclaw – dr. hab. Michał Białek, professor at the University of Wrocław. The HAI Lab was established in April 2021 on the initiative of dr Paweł Niszczota and dr Tomasz Grzegorczyk of the Department of International Management.

The article’s authors examined people’s susceptibility to the “blind spot effect” in their first (native) and second (foreign) languages. The blind spot effect describes the misleading tendency to believe that one person is less prone to various errors than the average person. The results showed that processing information in a foreign language reduces the blind spot effect for psychological, but not economic, biases. The article is a contribution to research on metacognition (thinking about thinking) and the effect of foreign language.

The article is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13670069221110383

The accepted for print version of the article is in open access, at: https://psyarxiv.com/9vu76/

The article is based on the thesis of Ms. Magdalena Pawlak, whose supervisor is Dr. Paweł Niszczota. The work on it was funded by grant 2017/26/D/HS6/01159 from the National Science Center.