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UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title How strong emotions influence reasoning: effects of spider phobia on a conditional inference task How strong emotions influence reasoning: effects of spider phobia on a conditional inference task

Kai Hamburger, Luzie Jung, Wranke, Chrisitna, Christina Wranke, Christina Wranke@psychol, Uni-Giessen, De), Luzie Jung, Uni-Giessen, De), Kai Hamburger (+3 others)
2009 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society   unpublished

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In recent years there has been a growing interest to investigate how emotions affect logical reasoning. There is evidence that emotional states and emotional task contents could impede performance on logical reasoning problems. The aim of our research was to investigate how strong emotions-occurring due to spider phobia-affect logical reasoning. Therefore, spider phobics and non-phobics completed a conditional inference task with different types of content: spider phobia relevant, negative, and
more » ... neutral problems were presented. The results showed that spider phobics performed worst on phobia relevant problems compared to neutral and negative inferences. Thus, processing anxiety relevant topics may elicit a fear response resulting in a decrease of cognitive resources which might be responsible for the impaired reasoning performance.
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Kai Hamburger, Luzie Jung, Wranke, Chrisitna, Christina Wranke, Christina Wranke@psychol, Uni-Giessen, De), Luzie Jung, Uni-Giessen, De), Kai Hamburger, Kai Hamburger@psychol, Uni-Giessen, De). "UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title How strong emotions influence reasoning: effects of spider phobia on a conditional inference task How strong emotions influence reasoning: effects of spider phobia on a conditional inference task." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2009)