Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of
stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete …

Even at young ages, children self-report experiencing math anxiety, which negatively relates
to their math achievement. Leveraging a large dataset of first and second grade students' …

Although math anxiety is associated with poor mathematical knowledge and low course
grades (Ashcraft & Krause,), research establishing a connection between math anxiety and …

Two dominant explanations of choking under pressure–self-focus and distraction–have
been enduringly presented as competing mechanisms of motor skill failure under …

Poor performance in pressure-filled situations, or “choking under pressure,” has largely
been explained by two different classes of theories. Distraction theories propose that …

Two experiments demonstrate how individual differences in working memory (WM) impact
the strategies used to solve complex math problems and how consequential testing …

Whether because individuals are made aware of negative stereotypes about how they
should perform or are in a high-stakes testing situation, a stressful environment can …

Choking research in sport has suggested that an athlete's tendency to choke, versus give a
better than usual (ie,“clutch”) performance depends on his or her personality, as well as on …

This chapter describes measures of cognitive ability (general mental ability and specific
abilities) and examines their usefulness for personnel selection. An overview of definitional …

In most Western societies, males are stereotyped as having stronger mathematical abilities
than females whereas females are stereotyped as having stronger verbal abilities than …