How emotions affect logical reasoning: evidence from experiments with mood-manipulated participants, spider phobics, and people with exam anxiety.

Front Psychol · 2014 · PMC4050437 · PMID 24959160

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Furthermore, phobia relevant problems resulted in more errors than neutral ones ( M = 36.81%; SE = 4.71%) but marginally failed to reach significance [ t (8) = 2.268; p = 0.053].

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