Can Italians Understand Spanish? Language Closeness Exacerbates the Illusion of Understanding - Ziyu Ren, Leigh H. Grant, Boaz Keysar, 2026 People often understand parts of languages that are closely related to their native tongue. But do they understand what the speaker intends to convey? We discov...

New paper in Psych Science! 🎉

Even with a completely foreign language, people overestimate how well they understand a speaker. With a *close* language? Even worse. Familiarity breeds overconfidence - and overestimation.

doi.org/10.1177/0956...
w/ Leigh H. Grant & Boaz Keysar

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