Susanne Brouwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Brouwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brouwer |
| SIGNATURE | BROUWER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0321-8227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech
We examined the morphosyntactic prediction ability of child heritage speakers and the role of reading skills and language experience in predictive processing. Using visual world eye-tracking, we focused on predictive use of case-marking cues in Turkish with monolingual (N = 49, M AGE = 83 months) and heritage children, who were early bilinguals of Turkish and Dutch (N = 30, M AGE = 90 months). We found quantitative differences in the magnitude of…
Criticism in a foreign accent does not hurt less
Aims: Recent findings have shown that a foreign accent affects the emotionality of the speech perceived by native speakers. Moreover, the emotional distance that is generated by foreign languages has been put forward to justify that critiques in a foreign language hurt less than those in a native language. Building on this, we hypothesized that if a foreign accent similarly modulates emotional processing, foreign-accented critiques should elicit …
Using a Foreign Language Does Not Make the Art More Profound—Familiarity Does
This study investigated whether using a foreign language affects aesthetic judgments of art. Across three experiments ( N = 345), Polish–English and Dutch–English bilinguals rated songs and paintings on profoundness, liking, recommendation, and familiarity. Participants completed the study in either their native or foreign language, allowing us to examine the Foreign Language Effect on judgments of both language‐rich content (songs with lyrics) a…
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals
People's judgements differ systematically while reading moral dilemmas in their native or their foreign language. This so-called Foreign Language Effect (FLE) has been found in many language pairs when tested with artificial, sacrificial moral dilemmas (i.e., Trolley and Footbridge). In Experiment 1, we investigated whether the FLE can be replicated in Turkish (native) – English (foreign) bilinguals using the same dilemmas ( N = 203). These unrea…
War feels less horrid in a foreign accent: Exploring the impact of the foreign accent on emotionality
Introduction The processing of a foreign accent is known to increase cognitive load for the native listener, establish psychological distance with the foreign-accented speaker, and even influence decision-making. Similarly, research in the field of emotional processing indicates that a foreign accent may impact the native listener's emotionality. Taking these aspects into consideration, the current study aimed to confirm the hypothesis that a for…
The impact of foreign accent on irony and its consequences on social interaction
Literature has shown that foreign-accented (FA) speech modulates the degree of irony perceived by native (NA) individuals, but the subsequent consequences it may have on social interaction are unknown. To address this question, we presented Spanish first language (L1) users with written contexts with ironic/literal praises allocated to either a NA or a FA speaker. Written modality was used to avoid disfluency and to examine the impact of expectat…
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze
We investigated cross-modal influences between speech and sign in hearing bimodal bilinguals, proficient in a spoken and a sign language, and its consequences on visual attention during message preparation using eye-tracking. We focused on spatial expressions in which sign languages, unlike spoken languages, have a modality-driven preference to mention grounds (big objects) prior to figures (smaller objects). We compared hearing bimodal bilingual…
The time course of moral decision making in bilinguals' native and foreign language
Previous work has shown that moral decision making depends on whether moral dilemmas are presented in the native or a foreign language (Foreign Language effect). In that work, the focus was on bilinguals' final decision, but the tasks used, failed to capture the processes involved over time. The aim of this study was to examine the time course of moral decision making in bilinguals' native and foreign language prior to and after their moral decis…
BookTok 's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation
Over the last years, the hashtag #BookTok has been viewed more than 100 billion times on TikTok. Hence, both scholars and practitioners have plead for integrating #BookTok in the literacy classroom, expressing the hope that this digital subculture might flip adolescents' conceptions of reading and improve their reading motivation. This article presents the first empirical inquiry into students' evaluations of #BookTok in an educational context. R…
Wait, did I do that? Effects of previous decisions on moral decision‐making
Previous studies have investigated moral decision‐making by using moral dilemmas that involve a single decision. This article extends this paradigm, introducing two‐stage scenarios to examine how moral decision‐making is influenced by previous decisions in the same narrative—especially whether people tend to stay consistent or to reconsider within a morally challenging situation. It further compares decision‐making between two‐stage and one‐stage…
The interplay between emotion and modality in the Foreign-Language effect on moral decision making
This study examined whether the F oreign- L anguage effect , an increase in bilinguals’ rate of rational decisions to moral dilemmas in their foreign versus their native language, is influenced by emotion and the modality in which the dilemmas are presented. 154 Dutch–English bilinguals were asked to read and listen to personal and impersonal moral dilemmas in Dutch or in English. Importantly, the reading task had the character of a self-paced re…
Verb-based prediction during language processing: The case of Dutch and Turkish
This study investigated whether cross-linguistic differences affect semantic prediction. We assessed this by looking at two languages, Dutch and Turkish, that differ in word order and thus vary in how words come together to create sentence meaning. In an eye-tracking task, Dutch and Turkish four-year-olds ( N = 40), five-year-olds ( N = 58), and adults ( N = 40) were presented with a visual display containing two familiar objects (e.g., a cake an…
The auditory foreign-language effect of moral decision making in highly proficient bilinguals
Previous research has shown that people make systematically different decisions when faced with a moral dilemma in a native than in a foreign language [e.g. Costa, A., A. Foucart, S. Hayakawa, M. Aparici, J. Apesteguia, J. Heafner, and B. Keysar. 2014. “Your Morals Depend on Language.” PLoS One 9 (4): e94842]. The aim of the current study is to test the limits of this so-called Foreign-Language Effect by examining (1) whether it holds for highly …
No perceptual reorganization for Limburgian tones? A cross-linguistic investigation with 6- to 12-month-old infants
Despite the fact that many of the world's languages use lexical tone, the majority of language acquisition studies has focused on non-tone languages. Research on tone languages has typically investigated well-known tone languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. The current study looked at a Limburgian dialect of Dutch that uses lexical pitch differences, albeit in a rather restricted way. Using a visual habituation paradigm, 6- to 12-mont…
The Temporal Dynamics of Spoken Word Recognition in Adverse Listening Conditions
Decreased Sensitivity to Phonemic Mismatch in Spoken Word Processing in Adult Developmental Dyslexia
Initial lexical activation in typical populations is a direct reflection of the goodness of fit between the presented stimulus and the intended target. In this study, lexical activation was investigated upon presentation of polysyllabic pseudowords (such as procodile for crocodile) for the atypical population of dyslexic adults to see to what extent mismatching phonemic information affects lexical activation in the face of overwhelming support fo…
The auditory foreign-language effect of moral decision making in highly proficient bilinguals
Previous research has shown that people make systematically different decisions when faced with a moral dilemma in a native than in a foreign language [e.g. Costa, A., A. Foucart, S. Hayakawa, M. Aparici, J. Apesteguia, J. Heafner, and B. Keysar. 2014. “Your Morals Depend on Language.” PLoS One 9 (4): e94842]. The aim of the current study is to test the limits of this so-called Foreign-Language Effect by examining (1) whether it holds for highly …
The impact of foreign accent on irony and its consequences on social interaction
Literature has shown that foreign-accented (FA) speech modulates the degree of irony perceived by native (NA) individuals, but the subsequent consequences it may have on social interaction are unknown. To address this question, we presented Spanish first language (L1) users with written contexts with ironic/literal praises allocated to either a NA or a FA speaker. Written modality was used to avoid disfluency and to examine the impact of expectat…
Wait, did I do that? Effects of previous decisions on moral decision‐making
Previous studies have investigated moral decision‐making by using moral dilemmas that involve a single decision. This article extends this paradigm, introducing two‐stage scenarios to examine how moral decision‐making is influenced by previous decisions in the same narrative—especially whether people tend to stay consistent or to reconsider within a morally challenging situation. It further compares decision‐making between two‐stage and one‐stage…
The Temporal Dynamics of Spoken Word Recognition in Adverse Listening Conditions
Decreased Sensitivity to Phonemic Mismatch in Spoken Word Processing in Adult Developmental Dyslexia
Initial lexical activation in typical populations is a direct reflection of the goodness of fit between the presented stimulus and the intended target. In this study, lexical activation was investigated upon presentation of polysyllabic pseudowords (such as procodile for crocodile) for the atypical population of dyslexic adults to see to what extent mismatching phonemic information affects lexical activation in the face of overwhelming support fo…
The Temporal Dynamics of Spoken Word Recognition in Adverse Listening Conditions
No perceptual reorganization for Limburgian tones? A cross-linguistic investigation with 6- to 12-month-old infants
Despite the fact that many of the world's languages use lexical tone, the majority of language acquisition studies has focused on non-tone languages. Research on tone languages has typically investigated well-known tone languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. The current study looked at a Limburgian dialect of Dutch that uses lexical pitch differences, albeit in a rather restricted way. Using a visual habituation paradigm, 6- to 12-mont…
Verb-based prediction during language processing: The case of Dutch and Turkish
This study investigated whether cross-linguistic differences affect semantic prediction. We assessed this by looking at two languages, Dutch and Turkish, that differ in word order and thus vary in how words come together to create sentence meaning. In an eye-tracking task, Dutch and Turkish four-year-olds ( N = 40), five-year-olds ( N = 58), and adults ( N = 40) were presented with a visual display containing two familiar objects (e.g., a cake an…
The auditory foreign-language effect of moral decision making in highly proficient bilinguals
Previous research has shown that people make systematically different decisions when faced with a moral dilemma in a native than in a foreign language [e.g. Costa, A., A. Foucart, S. Hayakawa, M. Aparici, J. Apesteguia, J. Heafner, and B. Keysar. 2014. “Your Morals Depend on Language.” PLoS One 9 (4): e94842]. The aim of the current study is to test the limits of this so-called Foreign-Language Effect by examining (1) whether it holds for highly …
The interplay between emotion and modality in the Foreign-Language effect on moral decision making
This study examined whether the F oreign- L anguage effect , an increase in bilinguals’ rate of rational decisions to moral dilemmas in their foreign versus their native language, is influenced by emotion and the modality in which the dilemmas are presented. 154 Dutch–English bilinguals were asked to read and listen to personal and impersonal moral dilemmas in Dutch or in English. Importantly, the reading task had the character of a self-paced re…
Wait, did I do that? Effects of previous decisions on moral decision‐making
Previous studies have investigated moral decision‐making by using moral dilemmas that involve a single decision. This article extends this paradigm, introducing two‐stage scenarios to examine how moral decision‐making is influenced by previous decisions in the same narrative—especially whether people tend to stay consistent or to reconsider within a morally challenging situation. It further compares decision‐making between two‐stage and one‐stage…
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze
We investigated cross-modal influences between speech and sign in hearing bimodal bilinguals, proficient in a spoken and a sign language, and its consequences on visual attention during message preparation using eye-tracking. We focused on spatial expressions in which sign languages, unlike spoken languages, have a modality-driven preference to mention grounds (big objects) prior to figures (smaller objects). We compared hearing bimodal bilingual…
The time course of moral decision making in bilinguals' native and foreign language
Previous work has shown that moral decision making depends on whether moral dilemmas are presented in the native or a foreign language (Foreign Language effect). In that work, the focus was on bilinguals' final decision, but the tasks used, failed to capture the processes involved over time. The aim of this study was to examine the time course of moral decision making in bilinguals' native and foreign language prior to and after their moral decis…
BookTok 's appeal on ninth‐grade students: An inquiry into students' responses on a social media revelation
Over the last years, the hashtag #BookTok has been viewed more than 100 billion times on TikTok. Hence, both scholars and practitioners have plead for integrating #BookTok in the literacy classroom, expressing the hope that this digital subculture might flip adolescents' conceptions of reading and improve their reading motivation. This article presents the first empirical inquiry into students' evaluations of #BookTok in an educational context. R…
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals
People's judgements differ systematically while reading moral dilemmas in their native or their foreign language. This so-called Foreign Language Effect (FLE) has been found in many language pairs when tested with artificial, sacrificial moral dilemmas (i.e., Trolley and Footbridge). In Experiment 1, we investigated whether the FLE can be replicated in Turkish (native) – English (foreign) bilinguals using the same dilemmas ( N = 203). These unrea…
War feels less horrid in a foreign accent: Exploring the impact of the foreign accent on emotionality
Introduction The processing of a foreign accent is known to increase cognitive load for the native listener, establish psychological distance with the foreign-accented speaker, and even influence decision-making. Similarly, research in the field of emotional processing indicates that a foreign accent may impact the native listener's emotionality. Taking these aspects into consideration, the current study aimed to confirm the hypothesis that a for…
The impact of foreign accent on irony and its consequences on social interaction
Literature has shown that foreign-accented (FA) speech modulates the degree of irony perceived by native (NA) individuals, but the subsequent consequences it may have on social interaction are unknown. To address this question, we presented Spanish first language (L1) users with written contexts with ironic/literal praises allocated to either a NA or a FA speaker. Written modality was used to avoid disfluency and to examine the impact of expectat…
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech
We examined the morphosyntactic prediction ability of child heritage speakers and the role of reading skills and language experience in predictive processing. Using visual world eye-tracking, we focused on predictive use of case-marking cues in Turkish with monolingual (N = 49, M AGE = 83 months) and heritage children, who were early bilinguals of Turkish and Dutch (N = 30, M AGE = 90 months). We found quantitative differences in the magnitude of…
Criticism in a foreign accent does not hurt less
Aims: Recent findings have shown that a foreign accent affects the emotionality of the speech perceived by native speakers. Moreover, the emotional distance that is generated by foreign languages has been put forward to justify that critiques in a foreign language hurt less than those in a native language. Building on this, we hypothesized that if a foreign accent similarly modulates emotional processing, foreign-accented critiques should elicit …
Using a Foreign Language Does Not Make the Art More Profound—Familiarity Does
This study investigated whether using a foreign language affects aesthetic judgments of art. Across three experiments ( N = 345), Polish–English and Dutch–English bilinguals rated songs and paintings on profoundness, liking, recommendation, and familiarity. Participants completed the study in either their native or foreign language, allowing us to examine the Foreign Language Effect on judgments of both language‐rich content (songs with lyrics) a…
Psychology (13 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Foreign language (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · First language (4 works) · Moral dilemma (4 works)