Relations between class competition and primary school students' academic achievement: Learning anxiety and learning engagement as mediators

G Li, Z Li, X Wu, R Zhen - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study aimed to analyze the relations between class competition and primary school
students' academic achievement, considering the possible mediating roles of learning …

The effects of peer Competition-Induced anxiety on massive Open Online Course Learning: The mediating role of the behavioral inhibition system

C Liu, M Fang, M Wang, Y Wu, W Chen, Y Cheng - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the increased emphasis on competition in academic settings, anxiety is becoming more
common, which inevitably has some impact on students' learning processes and results …

Behavioural and neural modulation of win-stay but not lose-shift strategies as a function of outcome value in Rock, Paper, Scissors

L Forder, BJ Dyson - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Competitive environments in which individuals compete for mutually-exclusive outcomes
require rational decision making in order to maximize gains but often result in poor quality …

Behavioural and neural limits in competitive decision making: The roles of outcome, opponency and observation

BJ Dyson, BA Steward, T Meneghetti, L Forder - Biological psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand the boundaries we set for ourselves in terms of environmental responsibility
during competition, we examined a neural index of outcome valence (feedback-related …

Things become appealing when I win: Neural evidence of the influence of competition outcomes on brand preference

W Yu, Z Sun, T Xu, Q Ma - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Against the background of an increasingly competitive market environment, the current study
aimed to investigate whether and how victory and defeat, as two critical factors in …

Behavioural and neural interactions between objective and subjective performance in a Matching Pennies game

BJ Dyson, C Musgrave, C Rowe, R Sandhur - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
To examine the behavioural and neural interactions between objective and subjective
performance during competitive decision-making, participants completed a Matching …

Cognitive and affective factors in relations to learning

M Nyroos, J Korhonen, R Mononen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Both domain general (eg, working memory, executive functions) and domain specific (eg,
number 11 processing, phonological processing) cognitive factors have been found to …

Variability in competitive decision-making speed and quality against exploiting and exploitative opponents

BJ Dyson - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
A presumption in previous work has been that sub-optimality in competitive performance
following loss is the result of a reduction in decision-making time (ie, post-error speeding) …

Designing Educational Board Games for Children on Snake Handling Using Competitive Mechanisms

J Oktaviane, J Prestiliano… - Indonesian Journal Of …, 2021 - ejournal.undiksha.ac.id
Education with material and only listening to explanations make some people bored so that
the information they want to convey is not well received. In addition, there is a lack of media …

Humans conceptualize victory and defeat in body size

W Yu, Z Sun, J Zhou, C Xu, M Shen - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Size matters considerably for victory and defeat during competitive situations. Drawing on
the embodied theory of cognition, we examined the reciprocal association between size and …