Ben-Haim Moshe Shay, Williams Paul, Howard Zachary, Mama Yaniv, Eidels Ami, Algom Daniel
School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University;
School of Psychology, University of Newcastle.
J Vis Exp. 2016 Jun 29(112):53720. doi: 10.3791/53720.
The emotional Stroop effect (ESE) is the result of longer naming latencies to ink colors of emotion words than to ink colors of neutral words. The difference shows that people are affected by the emotional content conveyed by the carrier words even though they are irrelevant to the color-naming task at hand. The ESE has been widely deployed with patient populations, as well as with non-selected populations, because the emotion words can be selected to match the tested pathology. The ESE is a powerful tool, yet it is vulnerable to various threats to its validity. This report refers to potential sources of confounding and includes a modal experiment that provides the means to control for them. The most prevalent threat to the validity of existing ESE studies is sustained effects and habituation wrought about by repeated exposure to emotion stimuli. Consequently, the order of exposure to emotion and neutral stimuli is of utmost importance. We show that in the standard design, only one specific order produces the ESE.
情绪斯特鲁普效应（ESE）是指对情绪词汇的墨水颜色进行命名的潜伏期比对中性词汇的墨水颜色进行命名的潜伏期更长。这种差异表明，人们会受到载体词汇所传达的情绪内容的影响，即使这些内容与手头的颜色命名任务无关。由于可以选择情绪词汇来匹配所测试的病理情况，ESE已广泛应用于患者群体以及非特定人群。ESE是一种强大的工具，但它容易受到各种对其有效性的威胁。本报告指出了潜在的混杂因素来源，并包括一个模态实验，该实验提供了控制这些因素的方法。现有ESE研究有效性最普遍的威胁是由于反复接触情绪刺激而产生的持续效应和习惯化。因此，情绪刺激和中性刺激的呈现顺序至关重要。我们表明，在标准设计中，只有一种特定的顺序会产生ESE。
