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Emotional Stroop performance and the manic defence
Author(s) -
Bentall Richard P.,
Thompson Michelle
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1990.tb00877.x
Subject(s) - stroop effect , psychology , euphoriant , personality , clinical psychology , cognition , social psychology , psychiatry
Undergraduate subjects were selected on the basis of high, low and medium scores on Eckblad & Chapman's Hypomanic Personality Scale and were given an emotional Stroop test. Hypomanic traits were associated with interference of colour naming for depressive but not euphoria‐related words.