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About Secondhand Smoke - (https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/index.html)
About Passive smoking - (https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/passive-smoking-protect-your-family-and-friends/)
Neuroscience for Kids - (http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html)
What the Stroop Effect Reveals About Our Minds - (https://lesley.edu/article/what-the-stroop-effect-reveals-about-our-minds)
The Emotional Stroop Effect Is Modulated by the Biological Salience and Motivational Intensity Inherent in Stimuli - (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03023/full)
The Emotional Stroop Task: Assessing Cognitive Performance under Exposure to Emotional Content - (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993290/)
The Stroop Effect - (https://www.simplypsychology.org/stroop-effect.html)
Ask an Expert: How does Stroop Effect apply to real life situations? - (https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/ask-an-expert/viewtopic.php?t=6139)
Stroop Test - (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/stroop-test)
Clinical Application of the Modified Stroop Test to Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47792734_Clinical_Application_of_the_Modified_Stroop_Test_to_Children_with_Attention_DeficitHyperactivity_Disorder)
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