Reasoning about emotional contents following shocking terrorist attacks: A tale of three cities

被引：39

作者：

Blanchette, Isabelle

Richards, Anne

Melnyk, Laura

Lavda, Anastasia

机构：

[1] Univ Manchester, Sch Psychol Sci, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[2] Univ London, Birkbeck Coll, Sch Psychol, London WC1E 7HU, England

[3] Univ Western Ontario, Kings Univ Coll, Dept Psychol, London, ON, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-APPLIED | 2007年 / 13卷 / 01期

关键词：

reasoning; emotion; terrorism; risk estimate; deduction;

D O I：

10.1037/1076-898X.13.1.47

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

The authors examined reasoning following the terrorist attacks carried out in London in July 2005. They tested participants in London (United Kingdom), Manchester (United Kingdom), and London (Canada) within I week of the attacks and again 6 months later. Participants reasoned about syllogisms of 3 types: neutral, generally emotional, and emotionally related to terrorism. Participants also provided self-reports of emotion and risk estimates. Participants generally reasoned more accurately on neutral problems, compared with generally emotional and terrorism-related problems. However, participants in London (United Kingdom) provided more logically valid answers when reasoning about problems related to terrorism and were less likely to answer on the basis of beliefs, despite reporting higher levels of emotions.

引用

页码：47 / 56

页数：10

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