Grelling's paradox and the Stroop effect
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1Department of Psychology and Counseling, University of North Carolina at Pembroke 28372-1510, USA. cabep@sassette.uncp.edu
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|January 13, 1999
Abstract:
The verbal paradox attributed to Grelling offers an insight into the construction and possible interpretation of the classic Stroop effect and related phenomena. Heterological and autological relationships, as Grelling used those terms, suggest stimulus display pairings that are likely to show Stroop-like interference.
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