The negative consequences of math anxiety (MA) on educational outcomes are wellknown, but it is less clear whether MA also affects people’s behaviour in other contexts. The aim of this work was to explore the effects of MA on the tendency to give incorrect heuristic responses in two well-known decision-making tasks: the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and the framing task. Participants were 265 secondary school students and 395 high school students. As expected, MA was related to a higher number of incorrect heuristic responses in the CRT, and to being more susceptible to framing effects, even when the effects of test anxiety and math achievement were controlled for. These results show a link between MA and decision-making errors.
Mathematical anxiety and decision processes involving numeracy / Primi, C.; Donati, M.A.; Chiesi, F.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2014), pp. 98-98. (Intervento presentato al convegno The British Psychological Society - Developmental Section Annual Conference 2014.).
Mathematical anxiety and decision processes involving numeracy
PRIMI, CATERINA;DONATI, MARIA ANNA;CHIESI, FRANCESCA
2014
Abstract
The negative consequences of math anxiety (MA) on educational outcomes are wellknown, but it is less clear whether MA also affects people’s behaviour in other contexts. The aim of this work was to explore the effects of MA on the tendency to give incorrect heuristic responses in two well-known decision-making tasks: the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and the framing task. Participants were 265 secondary school students and 395 high school students. As expected, MA was related to a higher number of incorrect heuristic responses in the CRT, and to being more susceptible to framing effects, even when the effects of test anxiety and math achievement were controlled for. These results show a link between MA and decision-making errors.
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