Choking under experimenter's presence: Impact on proactive control and practical consequences for psychological science.
Choking
Experimenter presence
Proactive control
Social facilitation
Working-memory
Journal
Cognition
ISSN: 1873-7838
Titre abrégé: Cognition
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0367541
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
26
09
2018
revised:
21
03
2019
accepted:
25
03
2019
pubmed:
31
3
2019
medline:
2
9
2020
entrez:
31
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Evidence accumulated for more than a century on audience effects shows that being watched by others typically impairs performance on difficult tasks. However, recent research under the label of « choking under pressure » suggests that this performance impairment is, ironically, specific to the individuals who are the most qualified to succeed-those with a high working memory capacity (WMC). Here, we predicted and found that being watched by evaluative others such as the experimenter undermines proactive control on which the high-WMC individuals rely the more. These results refine our understanding of both audience and choking effects, and lead to innovative, practical recommendations for psychological science.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30927658
pii: S0010-0277(19)30073-3
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.018
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
60-64Informations de copyright
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