Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 409-434

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Eysenck, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84953471931     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699939208409696     Document Type: Article

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