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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
卷 137, 期 -, 页码 71-85出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.07.004
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Ritual; Anxiety; Emotion regulation; Performance
From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people employ to cope with performance-induced anxiety: rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often characterized by formality and repetition that lacks direct instrumental purpose. Using different instantiations of rituals and measures of anxiety (both physiological and self-report), we find that enacting rituals improves performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: engaging in behaviors described as a ritual improved performance more than engaging in the same behaviors described as random behaviors. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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