I'm not familiar with her work. Could you spell out some or her main claims / findings / arguments?
Grammatical gender can have weak priming effects. eg. if your language codes "bridge" as masculine, you're more likely to describe one using words like "stout" and "strong", as opposed to languages with feminine bridges that are likely to be "graceful" or "soaring". If I recall correctly she also did some similar work with the way languages encode path and manner of movement (ie. in English I would say "he ran out of the room", while in French it's more like "he left the room running").
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The short version is that if the language you speak requires different verbs for the present and the future, it causes you to think about it differently. Depending on the magnitude of the effect, this has important implications for construal level theory. If your language allows you to think about the future in Near mode, it may allow you to think about it more rationally.
Previous discussion on one of Keith Chen's papers here.