How emotional contexts modulate item memory in individuals with high and low negative affect and worry

Table 1.

Behavioral results: mean proportions of hits–false alarms (SD) for item and context memory across experiments 1 and 2

Experiment 1 Experiment 2
Overall Low negative affect High negative affect Low worry High worry
Item memory
 Negative 0.59 (0.17) 0.64 (0.21) 0.48 (0.22) 0.62 (0.23) 0.51 (0.21)
 Neutral 0.53 (0.17) 0.59 (0.25) 0.49 (0.20) 0.57 (0.26) 0.51 (0.20)
 Positive 0.54 (0.19) 0.57 (0.24) 0.49 (0.19) 0.56 (0.25) 0.51 (0.20)
Context memory
 Negative 0.22 (0.18) 0.29 (0.26) 0.27 (0.20) 0.28 (0.25) 0.29 (0.20)
 Neutral 0.35 (0.17) 0.37 (0.18) 0.30 (0.16) 0.37 (0.18) 0.29 (0.16)
 Positive 0.17 (0.11) 0.26 (0.15) 0.19 (0.17) 0.24 (0.16) 0.22 (0.17)

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