John Ridley Stroop

John Ridley Stroop:

(March 21, 1897 – September 1, 1973) was an American psychologist whose research in cognition and interference continues to be considered by some as the gold standard in intentional studies and profound enough to continue to be cited for relevance into the 21st century. The primary purposes of the lab are to replicate and investigate the Stroop Effect. Along the way, though, you will hopefully learn about the related topics of automatic mental processes and response times as a dependent variable.

Stroop was born in the rural community of Hall's Hill, outside Murfreesboro in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Of bad health, his family thought that he was not going to live long so he was spared of the heaviest land work. He was brilliant in his county school, graduating the first of his class. Stroop then began to study at David Lipscomb College (later known as Lipscomb University) in Nashville, Tennessee, an institution where he would later return as a teacher after his university doctoral work. Stroop graduated from college in 1919 and two years later obtained a diploma in this same school. On December 23 of the that year (1921) Jonh Ridley Stroop married Zelma Dunn with whom he had 3 sons. Zelma was the great niece of Margaret Zellner, wife of David Lipscomb.

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