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Priming of the Emotional Stroop Effect by a Schema Questionnaire. An Experimental Study of Test Order

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Forty persons were administered an emotional Stroop task with separation-related words and neutral words, together with the abandonment scale from Young's Schema Questionnaire (SQ). Half of the participants were administered the SQ abandonment scale prior to the Stroop task and half were administered it after the Stroop task. The results showed that priming by the SQ abandonment scale produced Stroop interference for unmasked separation words. This suggests that attentional bias is influenced by priming, and that it may be methodologically important to control possible priming factors when administering Stroop tasks and other measures of attentional bias.

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    Lars-Gunnar Lundh

  2. Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sylwia Czyzykow-Czarnocka

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Lundh, LG., Czyzykow-Czarnocka, S. Priming of the Emotional Stroop Effect by a Schema Questionnaire. An Experimental Study of Test Order. Cognitive Therapy and Research 25, 281–289 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010784412175

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