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Choking under experimenter's presence: impact on proactive control and practical consequences for psychological science

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Evidence accumulated for more than a century on audience effects shows that being watched by others typically impairs performance on difficult tasks. However, recent research under the label of « choking under pressure » suggests that this performance impairment is, ironically, specific to the individuals who are the most qualified to succeed—those with a high working memory capacity (WMC). Here, we predicted and found that being watched by evaluative others such as the experimenter undermines proactive control on which the high-WMC individuals rely the more. These results refine our understanding of both audience and choking effects, and lead to innovative, practical recommendations for psychological science.

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Psychologie
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hal-04631707 , version 1 (02-07-2024)

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Clément Belletier, Alice Normand, Valérie Camos, Pierre Barrouillet, Pascal Huguet. Choking under experimenter's presence: impact on proactive control and practical consequences for psychological science. Cognition, 2019, 189, pp.60-64. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.018⟩. ⟨hal-04631707⟩
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