People often make different moral decisions depending on which language they are using, a pattern called the moral foreign language effect. In a study of Spanish speakers answering the footbridge dilemma, where you must push a man off a bridge to stop a runaway train, participants answered more emotionally in their first language and more rationally in English. Their first-language answers used words like murder and guilt, while second-language answers leaned toward maximising the number of lives saved. The effect depends on context: it appeared for dilemmas involving breaking the law but not in the cheater's dilemma, and it weakened where English is an everyday lingua franca.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.