Materials and procedure
The study was presented to the participants as two separate, unrelated studies, from two different institutions. The emotion induction procedure was presented as a study on the use of fictitious videoclips in medical education whereas the learning task and the test were purportedly a study on the suitability of new medical discoveries to residents’ education. This procedure was used to prevent participants knowing that we were studying the effect of emotions on learning, which could trigger attempts to control that effect [Before the study started, participants were randomly assigned (