Wheel chairs and arm chairs: A novel experimental design for the emotional Stroop effect

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1552-1564

  Algom, Daniel ^a   Zakay, Dan ^a   Monar, Ofer ^a   Chajut, Eran ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emotion stimulus control; Emotional and classic Stroop effects; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 71049119749     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802490243     Document Type: Article

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