The Stroop test: how colourful is your language?

In the first in Mind Games, our new series on classic psychology experiments, we show you how to conduct the Stroop test, which looks at how language is processedWelcome to the first in a new series where we highlight some of the mesmerising and classic experiments in psychology that you can try for yourself at home. And what better way to kick off than with one of the most highly cited and replicated effects in the entire discipline: the Stroop effect!How we understand and generate language is