Second, we showed that the link between maths anxiety and cognitive reflection was partially mediated by reduced mathematical performance in anxious participants, as demonstrated by the mediating role of general maths knowledge and maths achievement in Experiments 1 2.
Finally, we should note that our results do not exactly match the pattern reported by [ 12] who found that the arithmetic performance of anxious participants was disproportionally affected by a WM-load.
Our findings here are consistent with prior suggestions that, in order to maintain performance levels, anxious participants compensate for impoverished attentional control by reducing speed (Eysenck and Calvo 1992).
The fact that, for the same level of behavioral performance, higher-anxious individuals expended more neural effort on task processing renders their processing less efficient.
Used by a group of ninth graders facing a biology final, the expressive writing task effectively eliminated the relationship between test anxiety and poor test performance: even highly anxious students performed just as well as non-anxious classmates.
Still, the comedian Rowan Atkinson miraculously stands out — and even hunched, stands tall — on a crowded stage with a vivid performance as an anxious, epicene Fagin.
In the weeks following the attacks, the Con Ed competition came to seem like a warm-up for the full-dress performance of an anxious status quo.
Mr. Letts (above right, with Ian Westerfer) turns in a quiet gem of a performance as the anxious critic-turned-dramaturge, who is kept busy taming egos and soothing tempers even as he struggles with his own flagrant neuroses.
And, we know that when children -- all of us for that matter -- are anxious, performance suffers.
A drawback: I tried, oh, how I tried, to admire, or even to understand, the stilted and anxious performances of the two hosts.
