THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE INTEGRAL EMOTIONS ON DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE REASONING
We evaluated how participants think about positive content related to their emotional history. Two groups (parent, non-parent) performed deduction and induction tasks whose contents were neutral, emotional-general, and emotional-parenting. Participants assessed the level of emotionality of the content. The parent group had an equivalent performance to the non-parent group regarding the deduction tasks for the emotional-parenting content, this despite a higher level of emotionality. The results partially support the conclusion that reasoning is influenced differently depending on whether or not emotions are related to personal experiences.