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Subjects differing in test anxiety had a single immediate free recall test on each of eight unrelated 12-item lists, followed by final free recall for all items from all lists. There were no main effects due to test anxiety, but Anxiety by Sex interactions indicated that, while high anxiety was generally associated with worse performance than low anxiety for males, it was generally associated with better performance for females. There was little difference between males and females at low-anxiety levels, but females performed better than males given high anxiety.
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Brower, P.E., Mueller, J.H. Serial position effects in immediate and final recall as a function of test anxiety and sex. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 61–63 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329625
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