title: Expertise and performance on the emotional Stroop task.
abstract: 40 undergraduate students participated in an emotional Stroop task to test the hypothesis that individuals with high interest in and formal knowledge of interpersonal relationships will react with significantly longer latencies to social-related threat words than individuals without such an interest or formal knowledge. The results did not support the hypothesis; however, an association between interference scores and order of card presentation was found.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. cn3@maties.sun.ac.za
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nortje
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: van der Westhuizen
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Oellermann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014705:Verbal Behavior