Blanchette Isabelle
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England.
Mem Cognit. 2006 Jul;34(5):1112-25. doi: 10.3758/bf03193257.
The effect of emotional content on logical reasoning is explored in three experiments. Theparticipants completed a conditional reasoning task (If p, then q) with emotional and neutral contents. In Experiment 1, existing emotional and neutral words were used. The emotional value of initially neutral words was experimentally manipulated in Experiments 1B and 2, using classical conditioning. In all experiments, participants were less likely to provide normatively correct answers when reasoning about emotional stimuli, compared with neutral stimuli. This was true for both negative (Experiments 1B and 2) and positive contents (Experiment 2). The participants' interpretations of the conditional statements were also measured (perceived sufficiency, necessity, causality, and plausibility). The results showed the expected relationship between interpretation and reasoning. However, emotion did not affect interpretation. Emotional and neutral conditional statements were interpreted similarly. The results are discussed in light of current models of emotion and reasoning.
在三个实验中探究了情感内容对逻辑推理的影响。参与者完成了带有情感内容和中性内容的条件推理任务（如果p，那么q）。在实验1中，使用了现有的情感词和中性词。在实验1B和实验2中，运用经典条件作用对最初为中性的词的情感价值进行了实验操控。在所有实验中，与中性刺激相比，参与者在对情感刺激进行推理时给出规范正确答案的可能性更低。对于负面内容（实验1B和实验2）和正面内容（实验2）均是如此。还测量了参与者对条件陈述的解释（感知到的充分性、必要性、因果关系和合理性）。结果显示了解释与推理之间的预期关系。然而，情感并未影响解释。情感条件陈述和中性条件陈述的解释方式相似。根据当前的情感与推理模型对结果进行了讨论。
