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- n. psychology The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).
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- After John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935. (Wiktionary)
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heypacksees The difficulty of naming the color in which a word is printed, if that word is the name of a different color. For example: If the word red is printed in green, it will be harder to say that it is green. Nov 11, 2012