Abstract
Research using the emotion Stroop task has established that individuals with various emotional disorders exhibit increased interference for stimuli specifically related to their disorder due to the concern relevance and negativity of these stimuli. Our study expands this research to normal populations. We examined the influence of emotionality, mood congruence, and concern relevance following experimental mood-induction procedures (MIPs) on emotion Stroop performance of college students. Participants completed a computerized emotion Stroop task following positive and negative MIPs. Results supported the mood congruence and concern relevance but not the emotionality hypotheses. The implication of these findings for theories of emotional breakdown and the importance of studying the idiographic aspects of affective experience are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 491-502 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Cognitive Therapy and Research |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research has been supported in part by grant IRI-8812699 awarded to Andrew Ortony by the National Science Foundation, in part by Anderson Consulting through Northwestern University’s Institute for the Learning Sciences, and in part by contracts MDA903-90-C-0108 and MDA903-93-K-0008 from the U.S. Army Research Institute awarded to William Revelle and Kristen Anderson.
Keywords
- Emotion
- Mood congruence
- Stroop