The calculus exam has been on the syllabus all semester, but when the time comes to take the test, all that comes to mind is a surge of panic.<\/p>\n
This sensation of math anxiety is all too familiar for Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences PhD student Mariel Barnett, who studies cognitive psychology under the guidance of mentor Brooke Macnamara, associate professor of psychological sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[2192,263,387,2435,2436,240,176],"class_list":["post-47315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychological-sciences","category-research","tag-brooke-macnamara","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-psychological-sciences","tag-mariel-barnett","tag-math-anxiety","tag-purdue-university","tag-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n