Robert Deloatch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Robert Deloatch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Supportive social media messages from online friends decreased the state anxiety of students with high test anxiety by 21 percent, University of Illinois computer science graduate student Robert Deloatch found in a new study. The paper, which is being published in the proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, was co-written by computer science professors Brian P. Bailey, Alex Kirlik and Craig Zilles.

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