Editing Stroop effect (section)

=== Emotional ===

The [[emotional Stroop test|emotional Stroop]] effect serves as an information processing approach to emotions. In an emotional Stroop task, an individual is given negative emotional words like "grief", "violence", and "pain" mixed in with more neutral words like "clock", "door", and "shoe".<ref name="The Stroop Effect"/>  Just like in the original Stroop task, the words are colored and the individual is supposed to name the color. Research has revealed that individuals that are depressed are more likely to say the color of a negative word slower than the color of a neutral word.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Frings|first=C|title=Decomposing the emotional Stroop effect|journal=Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology|year=2010|volume=1|issue=1|pages=42–49|doi=10.1080/17470210903156594|pmid=19691003|s2cid=23725232|display-authors=etal}}</ref>  While both the emotional Stroop and the classic Stroop involve the need to suppress irrelevant or distracting information, there are differences between the two. The emotional Stroop effect emphasizes the conflict between the emotional relevance to the individual and the word; whereas, the classic Stroop effect examines the conflict between the incongruent color and word.<ref name="The Stroop Effect"/> The emotional Stroop effect has been used in psychology to test implicit biases such as racial bias via an [[implicit-association test]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Greenwald|first1=Anthony|last2=Nosek|first2=Brian|last3=Xu|first3=Kaiyuan|date=2014-03-18|title=Psychology data from the Race Implicit Association Test on the Project Implicit Demo website|journal=Journal of Open Psychology Data|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=e3|doi=10.5334/jopd.ac|issn=2050-9863|doi-access=free}}</ref> A notable study of this is Project Implicit from Harvard University which administered a test associating negative or positive emotions with pictures of race and measured the reaction time to determine racial preference.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/|title=Project Implicit|website=implicit.harvard.edu|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref>