Anxiety and Working Memory Capacity: A Meta-Analysis and Narrative Review
Moran (2016) · Psychological Bulletin, 142(8)
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What the study found
A review of 177 samples with 22,061 people found that more anxious people scored lower on tests of working memory, which is the small mental space you use to hold and use information from moment to moment.
What the study cannot prove
This review combines 177 samples with 22,061 people. It shows a link between anxiety and lower scores on working-memory tasks. It does not show which causes which, and the tasks were memory tests, not conversations.
Limits we note on the exercises
The review shows a link and does not show which causes which. The tests were memory tasks, not conversations. Treating self-checking as a second job that uses the same space is our own explanation.
Where we use it
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