http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In sports, on a game show, or just on the job, what causes people to choke when the stakes are high? A new study by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggests that when there are high financial incentives to succeed, people can become so afraid of losing their potentially lucrative reward that their performance suffers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-people-stakes-high.html Neuroscience Wed, 09 May 2012 17:33:08 EST news255803577