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Exploring Individual Differences In Stroop Processing With Cluster Analysis: Target Article On Stroop-Differences, Chris Koch, Joetta Gobell, Gale H. Roid

Faculty Publications - Psychology Department

A relatively small number of studies of the Stroop task has examined individual differences in age, sex, hemispheric processing, and language. The amount of interference is the primary dependent measure in most studies, not the factors that contribute to the interference. In the present target article, cluster analysis is used to identify groups of participants who respond similarly on the Stroop task. Integrated color-word Stroop stimuli were presented for varying durations in the first study. Significant individual differences were found. A cluster analysis identified two groups of subjects. One group responded consistently across durations and conditions while the other responded …