Performance Anxiety
Heightened cortisol levels can help or hinder a person studying for a math test. For people with “higher working memory” and low math anxiety, cortisol seems to boost performance, but it has the opposite effect when math anxiety is high (Mattarella-
Heightened cortisol levels can help or hinder a person studying for a math test. For people with “higher working memory” and low math anxiety, cortisol seems to boost performance, but it has the opposite effect when math anxiety is high (Mattarell
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