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...test anxiety scale for children developed by Yale researchers found that test anxiety scores were higher among low academic achievers than among the high achievers and that test anxious children typically react with strong unconscious hostility against others who they think are passing judgement on their adequacy as persons. This feeling may undermine the morale and capacity to perform well on tests by some minorities...
Each study is based on opposing views of how potential murderers react to executions. Pierce and Bowers found that "the publicity surrounding an execution, let alone witnessing one, may cause some pepole--perhaps those on the fringe of sanity--to become fascinated and obsessed with the condemned person's crime, even to the point of imitating...
...escape with the amorphous answers often given. Candidates will be forced to answers questions with which they are uncomfortable. Second, it will push candidates to educate themselves completely on the entire range of matters relevant to a President. Third and most importantly, such a format will reveal how candidates react under pressure...
Essentially, this is the Multiflex: Restic believes he can convert the best instincts of a defense--instincts that normally serve a defense well--into advantage for his offense. By changing formations on every play, by setting several men in motion before the snap, he forces the defense to react to several changes before the play has even started, leaving the opponents confused and vulnerable. The coach's favorite phrase for the effect of the Multiflex is that it "negates defensive ability." And, Restic says, "The better the football player, the more the ability is negated." He explains: "Because when...
...night is balmy. The highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...