Developing and piloting a dot-probe measure of attentional bias for test anxiety

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 478-482

  Putwain, David W ^a   Langdale, Hannah C ^a   Woods, Kevin A ^b   Nicholson, Laura J ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Performance evaluation threat; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960009777     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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