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Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
An International Journal
Volume 13, 2000 - Issue 2
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Test anxiety and ego-threatening stress: Over- (and under-) estimation of emotional reactivity

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Pages 143-164 | Received 13 Jul 1999, Published online: 29 May 2007

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