Effects of instruction and stage-fright on intelligence testing

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-161

  Meijer, Joost ^a   Oostdam, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fear of failure; Intelligence; State anxiety; Test anxiety; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954426013     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: 18785174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10212-010-0033-6     Document Type: Article

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