Free online VR tool for speakers to practise in front of thousands of virtual spectators helps with anxiety. Percentage of students who said they were anxious public speakers fell from 65% before experiment to 20%, while percentage who described themselves as confident rose from 31% to 79%.
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the Guardian
Free online virtual reality tool helps people tackle public speaking nerves
Cambridge scientist behind VR platform says it could help those put off by high cost of speech anxiety treatment
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Two types of underconfidence linked to anxiety and gender. 🧠💭 Research suggests that more time for introspection allows for a mental process of negative rumination, which can further lower the confidence of people with anxiety as time elapses. ⏳😟
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Two types of underconfidence linked to anxiety and gender
Women and people with anxiety are both prone to low confidence in their own abilities, but a new study by University College London (UCL) researchers has found that the two groups are prone to two distinct types of underconfidence.
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