This review focuses on the issue of poverty affecting economic decision-making. By critically
evaluating existing studies, the authors propose a structural model detailing the cognitive …

We review how stress induction, time pressure manipulations and math anxiety can interfere
with or modulate selection of problem-solving strategies (henceforth “strategy selection”) in …

Consumers sometimes act like creatures of habit, automatically repeating past behavior with
little regard to current goals and valued outcomes. To explain this phenomenon, we show …

Anxiety about math is tied to low math grades and standardized test scores, yet not all math-
anxious individuals perform equally poorly in math. We used functional magnetic resonance …

Two experiments demonstrate how individual differences in working memory (WM) impact
the strategies used to solve complex math problems and how consequential testing …

Poor performance in pressure-filled situations, or “choking under pressure,” has largely
been explained by two different classes of theories. Distraction theories propose that …

Targets are an integral component of management control systems and play a significant
role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental …

The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the Big Five personality factors
could predict who thrives or chokes under pressure during decision-making. The effects of …

Test anxiety refers to a specific type of anxiety that is experienced in tests, exams, and other
similar testing situations that evaluate one's achievement. Research in test anxiety has been …

The first neurobiologically detailed theory of multiple systems in category learning, called
COVIS, was originally conceived in 1998. COVIS, which is now well established, postulates …