The State Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger et al., 1983) served to form two groups, one high and one low in trait-anxiety (fig. 1a). An associative statistical word-learning (training) was applied to investigate the development of memory bias for negatively arousing stimuli. Within this framework, 60 neutral word stimuli (e.g. binu) were linked with negative arousing colour i ( l i ) (fi 1b...
