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Working under pressure enhances task performance for certain individuals

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While traditional stress-performance models face scrutiny, empirical studies show that certain individuals under pressure or stress can maintain high performance or exhibit enhanced cognitive outcomes.

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The claim is specific and testable. Multiple empirical papers (4, 5, 6) show instances where stress or work pressure is associated with maintained or enhanced cognitive/task performance for specific individuals (such as those with high trait anxiety or specific stress profiles), outweighing the single critical review paper on the Yerkes-Dodson law.

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High and low current perceived stress associated with enhanced emotional mnemonic discrimination.
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Vas R, Phillips T, Ferguson LA, Harikumar A, Castro M, Leal SL. High and low current perceived stress associated with enhanced emotional mnemonic discrimination.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053989.124

Paper 4 finds that individuals with high perceived stress still display enhanced detailed memory performance under certain conditions.

Evidence against · 1
From law to folklore: work stress and the Yerkes-Dodson Law
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Martin Corbett. From law to folklore: work stress and the Yerkes-Dodson Law. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmp-03-2013-0085

Paper 0 challenges the traditional Yerkes-Dodson law regarding stress and performance, concluding it has little empirical basis.

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The impact of work pressure on decision-making effectiveness among department heads in faculties of educational sciences.
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Al-Zoubi Z, AlKaabi A, Qablan A, Bataineh O, Bany Issa H. The impact of work pressure on decision-making effectiveness among department heads in faculties of educational sciences.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304584

Paper 5 indicates that department heads experiencing high work pressure maintain a high level of decision-making effectiveness.

Trait Anxiety Leads to "Better" Performance? A Study on Acute Stress and Uncertain Decision-Making.
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Yang Y, Yan B, Sun K, Wu D, Wang C, Xiao W. Trait Anxiety Leads to "Better" Performance? A Study on Acute Stress and Uncertain Decision-Making.. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14121186

Paper 6 demonstrates that high trait anxiety scores predict better performance in making decisions under ambiguity during stress.

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