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Download full textBrown, Alan S.; Itzig, Jerry M. – 1976
The effects of humorous test questions on test performance of high and low-anxious college students was investigated. It was hypothesized that humor should reduce the anxiety level of high-anxious subjects, and thus improve their performance, while having little effect on low-anxious subjects. Students were assigned to a low or high-anxious group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Higher Education
