Emotional Dilution of the Stroop Effect: A New Tool for Assessing Attention Under Emotion

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 944-948

  Chajut, Eran ^a   Schupak, Asi ^a   Algom, Daniel ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional bias; Emotion; Selective attention; Stroop dilution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650711085     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020172     Document Type: Article

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