Smart People Choke Under Pressure - The Diigo Meta page

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  Smart people have higher working-memory capacity, but when gets filled with worries impedes their performance.

  psychology science brain memory intelligence interesting article

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  • The pressure causes verbal worries, like ‘Oh no, I can’t screw up,’" said Sian Beilock, assistant professor of psychology at Miami University of Ohio. "These thoughts reside in the working memory." And that takes up space that would otherwise be pondering the task at hand.
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• 10 Feb 05
  

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  Not a huge study from UMICH, but the results sound unambiguous (although the headline is misleading). The executive summary is that people with good short term memory (or "big" short term memory) tend to test as intelligent in low pressure scenarios. But

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