Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-16-2019

Publication Source

Frontiers in Psychology

Volume Number

10

First Page

760

Publisher

Frontiers

ISSN

1664-1078

Comments

Copyright © 2019 Park, Marsh and Johnson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Park G, Marsh BU and Johnson EJ (2019) Enhanced Memory for Fair-Related Faces and the Role of Trait Anxiety. Front. Psychol. 10:760. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00760

Abstract

The current research examined whether fair consideration—a social norm that people inherently prefer to confirm—would modulate face recognition. Each neutral face was associated with fair or unfair offers via an economic decision task, the Ultimatum Game (UG) task. After the UG, participants were asked to identify the faces of proposers who made different offers. Enhanced memory was observed for fair-related compared to unfair-related faces. Furthermore, high trait anxiety was associated with reduced memory for fair-related faces. These results were further confirmed by signal detection theory. The current research provided initial evidence that people showed enhanced memory for faces that made fair offers from the economic decision task, and that high trait anxiety was associated with reduced fair-related memory. Possible neural mechanisms and the implication in economic and social situations have been discussed.

Keywords

fair-modulated memory, economic decision task, trait anxiety, the ultimatum game, anxiety-modulated fair memory

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