Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 208-212

  Jamieson, Jeremy P ^a   Mendes, Wendy Berry ^a   Blackstock, Erin ^a   Schmader, Toni ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion cognition interactions; Physiological reactivity; Reappraisal; Stress and performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449658876     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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