Alejandro Lleras and Simona Buetti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Alejandro Lleras and Simona Buetti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois psychology professor Alejandro Lleras and postdoctoral researcher Simona Buetti found that having a sense of control over events can, in the right circumstances, reduce the distorting influence of positive and negative emotions on cognition.

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