title: The emotional Stroop: a comparison of panic disorder patients, obsessive-compulsive patients, and normal controls, in two experiments.
abstract: An emotional Stroop task with four word types (panic threat, obsessive-compulsive threat, general threat, and neutral) and two presentation conditions (supraliminal, subliminal) was used in two experiments. The first experiment involved 21 panic disorder (PD) patients and 20 normal controls; the second experiment 20 PD patients and 20 obsessive-compulsive patients. PD patients, obsessive-compulsive patients, and normal controls did not differ in Stroop interferences. In addition, there were no significant correlations between reduction of PD symptoms and differences between pre- and post-treatment Stroop response latencies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mirjam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kampman
authors.forename: Ger P J
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Keijsers
authors.forename: Marc J P M
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Verbraak
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Näring
authors.forename: Cees A L
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Hoogduin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D013360:Subliminal Stimulation