An investigation of belief-bias and logicality in reasoning with emotional contents

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 461-479

  Eliades, Marios ^a   Mansell, Warren ^a   Stewart, Andrew J ^a   Blanchette, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Belief bias; Deductive reasoning; Dual system accounts of reasoning; Emotion; Type 1 Type 2 processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867549208     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2012.713317     Document Type: Article

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