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Abstract
The current research examined whether trait anxiety modulated memory for fair and unfair related stimuli. One hundred one undergraduate participants played a deviation of the Ultimatum Game (UG), in which participants decided whether to accept or reject fair and unfair offers made by different proposers. After completion of the UG, participants performed a surprise face recognition task in which they were asked to identify faces of the proposers from the UG. Trait anxiety was not associated with the acceptance rate of fair or unfair offers. Superior memory was observed for faces that made fair offers compared to faces that made unfair offers; however, people with high trait anxiety showed lower rates of face recognition for fair-related stimuli than unfair related stimuli. The current research shows that memory is prioritized to fair-related stimuli and that trait-anxiety modulates recognition memory for fair-related face stimuli.
