Abstract
Although public speaking state anxiety is understood to be a dynamic phenomenon of patterns which continually shift before, during, and after performance, researchers have not investigated patterns of anxiety in listening. Based upon current information processing perspectives, it is argued that state anxiety levels should differ concomitantly with variations in cognitive load during listening performance. In the present study, anxiety levels were observed to produce a within‐performance pattern that contrasts markedly with patterns observed for public speaking performance. Decreases in affect for the listening task were observed, along with an interesting pattern of correlations between anxiety and listening performance.
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