Individuals often feel anxious in anticipation of tasks such as speaking in public or meeting with a boss. I find that an overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the best way to cope with pre-performance anxiety. However, across several studies involving karaoke singing, public speaking, and math performance, I investigate an alternative strategy: reappraising anxiety as ...

Mathematics is a subject with numerous applications in everyday life but it often viewed as difficult leading to math anxiety among students. This can limit students' career options and affect their success. To address this issue, we investigated the factors contributing university college study focused on students from National University of Mongolia (NUM) Mongolian State Education (MSUE). We ...

OBJECTIVE Approximately 66-80%of graduate students experience statistics anxiety and some researchers propose that many students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their academic curriculums. As such, it is likely that statistics anxiety is, in part, responsible for many students delaying enrollment in these courses for as long as possible. This paper proposes a...

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 adversely affect the success people have in solving math problems. I review work examining how unwanted failure in math occurs and individual differences in those most likely to fail. This work suggests that a high-stress situati...

Research and education stakeholders in the United Kingdom (UK) acknowledge math anxiety as a detriment to learning associated with performance deficits, avoidance, limiting career opportunities. Support approaches strategies have typically focused on instruction emotion regulation, but not necessarily younger children using more sustainable resource, such targeted storybook approach. Therefore,...