A word association task with time pressure was used to induce slips of the tongue and misreadings. The incidence of these was not greater for affectively-toned words than for neutral words: individual differences were great. Measures similar to the usual word association faults were also taken: these were more frequent with emotional words, but were also related to word frequency and to a measure of the associative power of the words. The nature of the individual differences involved is discussed.
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