Emotional Stroop performance and the manic defence.
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.
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Sub-department of Clinical Psychology, New Medical School, Liverpool, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003118:Color Perception; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D012660:Semantics; D012928:Social Desirability