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Performance Difficulty

Performance Difficulty is a theoretical construct within the academic study of foreseeability of hardship that denotes the measurable discrepancy between the anticipated and actual cognitive, operational, or resource demands required to fulfill a specified task or obligation under prevailing conditions.

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328

Authors

181

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2017–2026

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Publications

152

Anxiety and Performance: The Processing Efficiency Theory

Michael W. Eysenck, Manuel G. Calvo · Cognition & Emotion · 1992 · 2.4K citations

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Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

David Dunning, Kerri L. Johnson, Joyce Ehrlinger et al. · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2003 · 1.2K citations

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The Development of the Concepts of Effort and Ability, Perception of Academic Attainment, and the Understanding That Difficult Tasks Require More Ability

John G. Nicholls · Child Development · 1978 · 909 citations

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Effects of task difficulty and task uniqueness on social loafing.

Stephen G. Harkins, Richard E. Petty · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1982 · 443 citations

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Skilled or unskilled, but still unaware of it: How perceptions of difficulty drive miscalibration in relative comparisons.

Katherine A. Burson, Richard P. Larrick, Joshua Klayman · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2006 · 362 citations

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Authors

328

  1. PW
    Pei‐Chen Wu

    National Pingtung University, Taiwan

    3 publications · 69 citations

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  2. ML
    Melvin L. Snyder

    Dartmouth College, United States

    3 publications · 356 citations

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  3. OD
    Oliver Dickhäuser

    University of Mannheim, Germany

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  4. JG
    Jeffrey G. Noel

    University of Missouri–St. Louis, United States

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  5. ME
    Miriam Erez

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    2 publications · 357 citations

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Institutions

181

  1. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    255 citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    217 citations

  3. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    5K citations

  4. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    140 citations

  5. National Pingtung University

    Pingtung City, Taiwan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    69 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    224 citations

  7. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    102 citations

  8. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    124 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    13 publications · 1.8K citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 6 publications · 178 citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Psychology

    6 publications · 519 citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Psychology

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  5. Psychological Reports

    3 publications · 49 citations

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