The influence of anxiety direction on processing bias

Article Abstract:

This article examines the effects of anxiety interpretation on the cognitive processing of positive and negative information. Results indicate that subjects who perceive anxiety as facilitative demonstrate a significant processing bias toward positive words during a Stroop test while subjects who perceive anxiety as debilitating are biased toward negative words.

United Kingdom, Statistical Data Included, Research, Usage, Psychological tests, Human information processing, Mood (Psychology), Threat (Psychology)

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"Because I know it will!": Placebo effects of an ergogenic aid on athletic performance

Article Abstract:

An experiment that was designed to investigate the expectancy versus actual impact of receiving an ergogenic aid on performance and perceived exertion with highly trained endurance athletes is discussed. It was found that believing that one had taken the substance resulted in at times almost as fast as those associated with consuming the drug itself.

Health aspects, Ergogenic aids, Placebo effect

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Measuring anxiety in athletics: the revised competitive state anxiety Inventory-2

Article Abstract:

A study is conducted to use confirmatory factor analysis to revise the factor structure of the competitive state anxiety inventory-2 using one data set. The findings suggest that the CSAI-2R instead of the CSAI-2 be used by researchers and practitioners for measuring competitive state anxiety in athletes.

Evaluation, Self-confidence, Self confidence, Competition (Psychology)

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