“…Uncertainty harms general self-efficacy, or the belief that one is capable of attaining a specific, desirable goal (Bandura, 1977(Bandura, , 1997Gould, Petlichkoff, & Weinberg, 1984;Martens, Burton, Vealey, Bump, & Smith, 1990;Martin & Gil, 1991), and erodes selfconfidence (Maddux, 1995;Schunk, 1995). Building on this work, we predict that, compared to individuals in a neutral emotional state, anxious individuals will feel uncertain of their ability to make good decisions and will have low confidence in their own judgments.…”