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SUBMITTER: Osborne MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7307273 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Osborne Margaret S MS Munzel Brendan B Greenaway Katharine H KH
Frontiers in psychology 20200615
Performance anxiety can be debilitating, and so researchers and laypeople alike tend to assume that it is desirable to downregulate this emotion. Yet emerging perspectives in the emotion literature suggest that people sometimes aim to <i>upregulate</i> anxiety to aid performance. The present research investigated the emotion goals that musicians hold when performing. Drawing on a novel framework of emotion goals, the findings suggest that how people <i>want to feel</i> and how they want to <i>ap ...[more]