1999
DOI: 10.1017/s0257543400000730
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Humidity, anxiety, and test performance: Maintaining equity in Tropical climates

Abstract: With the advent of global warming, psychological tests are increasingly administered under high levels of environmental humidity, which may combine with test anxiety to disadvantage millions students worldwide. With temperature held constant, 42 Northern Territory (Australian) undergraduates took basic Digit Span and Stroop tests, under conditions of high/low humidity and high/low test rapport (which operationally defined test anxiety). Digit Span performance was significantly depressed both by anxiety and hum… Show more

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“…Areas with relative humidity above 70% were considered as high environmental humidity and the rest as low humidity areas. This comparison was based on the assumption that relative humidity between 70-80% is considered to be high and very close to tropical conditions [ 26 ].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Areas with relative humidity above 70% were considered as high environmental humidity and the rest as low humidity areas. This comparison was based on the assumption that relative humidity between 70-80% is considered to be high and very close to tropical conditions [ 26 ].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%