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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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3 .Nervous before a big interview? Or a major exam or speech?
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4 .Well, whatever you do, don't calm down.
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5 .Because new research finds that people who try to relax away their performance anxiety actually mess up more than folks who just give in to the excitement.
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6 .The study is in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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7 .We all grapple with nerves when we face some test of our abilities.
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8 .To find out how the impulse to banish the butterflies works out, Allison Wood Brooks of the Harvard Business School turned to karaoke.
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9 .She asked subjects to state that they felt either anxious, excited or calm before launching into song, regardless of how they actually felt.
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10 .The result: the people who said they were excited received the highest marks for their musical prowess on the karaoke console.
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11 .The same thing happened when participants read a note that said "try to get excited” before solving some tough math problems.
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12 .Their scores were almost 10 percent higher than those whose instructions were “try to remain calm."
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13 .It could be that when we attempt to suppress the jitters, we focus on what could go wrong.
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14 .But by spinning the anxiety into enthusiasm, we dive in with both feet.
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15 .And are less likely to stumble.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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