Department of Psychology, Open University of Israel, Ra’anana 43107, Israel.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2010 Nov;36(6):1567-72. doi: 10.1037/a0020710.
In the laboratory, people classify the color of emotion-laden words slower than they do that of neutral words, the emotional Stroop effect. Outside the laboratory, people react to features of emotion-laden stimuli or threatening stimuli faster than they do to those of neutral stimuli. A possible resolution to the conundrum implicates the counternatural response demands imposed in the laboratory that do not, as a rule, provide for avoidance in the face of threat. In 2 experiments we show that when such an option is provided in the laboratory, the response latencies follow those observed in real life. These results challenge the dominant attention theory offered for the emotional Stroop effect because this theory is indifferent to the vital approach-avoidance distinction.
在实验室中，人们对带有情绪色彩的单词的分类速度比中性单词慢，这就是情绪斯特鲁普效应。在实验室外，人们对带有情绪色彩或威胁性刺激的特征的反应速度比中性刺激快。一个可能的解决方案涉及到实验室中提出的违反自然的反应要求，这些要求通常不提供面对威胁时的回避。在 2 项实验中，我们表明，当这种选择在实验室中提供时，反应时遵循在现实生活中观察到的反应时。这些结果挑战了为情绪斯特鲁普效应提供的主导注意力理论，因为该理论对至关重要的趋近-回避区分漠不关心。
