Anxiety-Related Difficulties With Complex Arithmetic: A Web-Based Replication of the Anxiety--Complexity Effect.
Human behavior depends on the interplay between cognition and emotion. Negative emotions like anxiety affect performance, particularly in complex tasks, by limiting cognitive resources -- known as the anxiety--complexity effect. This study set out to replicate the anxiety--complexity effect in a web...
| Publicado en: | Zeitschrift für Psychologie Vol. 229; no. 4; pp. 236 - 241 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
2021
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