Fm. Sanchez et Jm. Serrano, INFLUENCE OF THE ALEXITHYMIA LEVEL IN THE EMOTIONAL STIMULI-PROCESSING IN A STROOP COLOR-NAMING TASK, Psicothema, 9(3), 1997, pp. 519-527
In this article, we research the emotion processing capacities related
to alexithymia, for assessing that alexithymia reflects a deficit in
the ability to process cognitively emotional stimuli. We performed a c
omputerized Stroop color-naming task in which they named the colors of
arousal words (e.g., AIDS) and non emotional words (e.g., GLASSES). I
n agreement with predictions, in the experimental phase subjects categ
orized as alexithymics should take less time to colour-name arousal wo
rds than non-alexithymics. These findings suggest that alexithymics we
re less able to recognise emotional stimuli, Also these finding provid
e further support for the validity of alexithymia construct.