John Ridley Stroop (March 21, 1897 – September 1, 1973) was an American psychologist. y, Tennessee]], USA. He developed a color-word task, named after him (the Stroop effect), to demonstrate interference in attention.

After obtaining his PhD from the George Peabody College he left psychology but returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where he became professor of biblical studies at David Lipscomb College, later known as Lipscomb University.

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