Distraction by emotional stimuli: use of a Stroop task with suicide attempters.
The performance on a modified Stroop task by patients who had recently attempted suicide by overdose was compared with that of hospital control patients and non-hospital members of a subject panel. All groups took longer to name colours of emotional words than neutral words, but the extent of the di...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1986
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