“…Finally, participants completed a questionnaire including measures of anxiety, motivation, performance expectations and estimates, and demographics. Borrowed from Mothersill, Dobson, and Neufeld (1986), the anxiety measure consisted of six items assessing participants’ negative feelings and physiological responses. 1 Specifically, participants were prompted to consider how they were feeling when completing the Eyes Task and anagram task and respond to the items “I had an uneasy feeling,” “I felt tense,” “I felt anxious,” “My heart beat faster,” “I had a fluttering feeling in my stomach,” and “I was perspiring” using response options ranging from 1 ( not at all true ) to 5 ( extremely true ).…”