Recalling emotional experiences affects performance on reasoning problems

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 267-276

  Chang, Angela ^a   Wilson, Margo ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruism; Anger; Cheater detection; Emotion; Framing effects; Priming; Reasoning; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242755782     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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