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Why Being Able To Compartmentalize Is A Key Ingredient For Risk-Taking
Forbes: It’s a crazy morning at home, and your spouse is furious at you. Harried, you slam the car door shut and race off to work where an important task awaits. Your ability to tune
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The Relationship Between Anxiety and Performance
Harvard Business Review: I choked. It was just a middle-school tennis match against a manifestly worse player, but I became overwhelmed with anxiety. Before we’d started, the most important thing was to win. But during
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Staying Focused in the Face of Distractions
Avoiding distractions – the usual advice for staying attentive – may not actually be the best answer to keeping on task, a study shows.
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Girls’ fear of math debunked, study suggests
CBC News: While girls tend to say they feel anxious about doing math, they are not actually much more anxious than their male counterparts during math classes or exams, according to new research by German
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Anxiety Limits Our Ability to Discriminate Faces and Speech
Anxiety can impair our accuracy on face- and word-recognition tasks, providing another possible source of fallibility in eyewitness testimony, according to research presented in two reports published in Psychological Science. In the first report, participants
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Math Anxiety Gets Fresh Look, Different Twist in New Research
Education Week: Considerable research suggests that girls are more anxious about math than boys, but a new study dives deeper to distinguish the general anxiety young people report about the subject from what they may