Abstract This study explored the relationship between the emotional Stroop effect and the Stroop effect. It measured the Stroop effect by place decision task, picture-word interference and color–word interference, also, measured the emotional Stroop effect by affective face sex–decision task, affective lexical decision task and affective picture color–naming task. Then, it explored the relationship between the two effects through Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed: （1）There were distinct Stroop interferences and emotional Stroop interferences among participants.（2）The emotional Stroop effect and the Stroop effect were two independent and different phenomenons.