The effect of emotion on interpretation and logic in a conditional reasoning task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1112-1125

  Blanchette, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONDITIONAL REASONING TASK; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGIC; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750841245     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193257     Document Type: Article

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