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Published on: June 20, 2012
Expertise and performance on the emotional Stroop task
C Nortje1, L R van der Westhuizen, A T Möller
1Department of Psychology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. cn3@maties.sun.ac.za
Abstract:
40 undergraduate students participated in an emotional Stroop task to test the hypothesis that individuals with high interest in and formal knowledge of interpersonal relationships will react with significantly longer latencies to social-related threat words than individuals without such an interest or formal knowledge. The results did not support the hypothesis; however, an association between interference scores and order of card presentation was found.
