Anxiety and the next-in-line effect

Studied the relationship between anxiety and the next-in-line effect in recall. Within each of 2 groups of 24 male and female university students, half the group took turns in reading a single word until an entire list of words had been read, and the other half merely listened. On a 2nd list of words the role of Ss was reversed. Compared to the listen control condition, the recall of Ss in the read condition was poorest for words read a short time before their own performance. This next-in-line effect was no greater for Ss classified on the basis of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale as being highly anxious than for low-anxiety Ss.