In two experiments, we investigated whether people reason differently when they reason about emotional and neutral contents. We gave participants a conditional reasoning task ("If p, then q") and varied the emotionality of the items used as p and q. Participants were asked to draw inferences based on these statements. In Experiment 1, we compared statements including preexisting emotional and neutral words. In Experiment 2, we experimentally manipulated the emotionality of initially neutral words using classical conditioning. In both experiments, emotionality affected participants' responses. They were more likely to draw invalid inferences in response to emotional compared with neutral statements.
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机译：在两个实验中，我们调查了人们对情感和中性内容的推理是否不同。我们为参与者提供了一个条件推理任务（“ If p，then q”），并改变了用作p和q的项目的情感。要求参与者根据这些陈述得出推论。在实验1中，我们比较了包括预先存在的情感和中性词语的陈述。在实验2中，我们使用经典条件实验性地操纵了最初中立的单词的情绪。在两个实验中，情绪都会影响参与者的反应。与中性陈述相比，他们更有可能在对情绪的反应中得出无效的推论。
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