(A) Item memory performance (proportion of hits–false alarms) in the recognition task across context valences for the negative affect and worry groups. Participants with low negative affect had overall better memory performance compared to participants with high negative affect (P = 0.04). No differences in recognition performance were found between the worry groups. (B) Item memory performance across context valences and memory confidence for the negative affect and worry groups. There were significantly more high-confidence compared to medium-confidence answers in both groups (Ps < 0.001), but participants with low negative affect had significantly more high-confidence answers compared to participants with high negative affect (P = 0.001). (C) False alarm rate for foils perceptually similar to item images presented during encoding across context valences. No differences in the number of false alarms of items presented at retrieval were found. Error bars represent 1 SEM.
