Ah I'm not sure you can extend this study to high anxiety circumstances in otherwise non-anxious people. The executive functions that highly anxious people nee

Ah I'm not sure you can extend this study to high anxiety circumstances in otherwise non-anxious people. The executive functions that highly anxious people need to engage are precisely the functions that high stress levels disrupt. This is about low stress situations in anxious people. Not high stress situations in non-anxious people. It's not likely that we can extrapolate between the two. And it's likely under those scenarios a third or more mechanism comes into play (flight, fight, freeze). Not to mention the control were all men so we do need better sample for replication before we consider extrapolation.