Table 2. Rating scores in the word valence judgment task and performance in the memory tasks in healthy control participants (HC) and patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

	HC (n = 30)						BPD (n = 30)
	no reference		self-reference		other-reference		no reference		self-reference		other-reference
	AM	SD (±)	AM	SD (±)	AM	SD (±)	AM	SD (±)	AM	SD (±)	AM	SD (±)
Valence judgment task
negative words	−2.06	0.73	−2.06	0.86	−1.76	0.72	−2.12	0.65	−2.28	0.73	−1.65	0.72
neutral words	0.19	0.33	0.44	0.34	0.19	0.41	−0.02	0.54	0.02	0.67	0.06	0.56
positive words	2.29	0.77	2.45	0.77	1.48	0.95	1.25	1.10	0.70	1.21	1.10	1.17
Free recall—% correct a
negative words	9.52	7.69	10.67	8.89	10.42	8.06	10.00	9.24	13.13	11.64	8.87	7.81
neutral words	6.94	6.99	9.59	7.14	10.77	9.21	6.23	6.12	10.87	9.65	8.47	7.00
positive words	12.63	7.74	16.35	9.90	13.35	8.62	13.50	11.83	16.67	10.78	12.63	10.04
Recognition task—% correct
negative words	70.50	15.99	71.67	15.39	68.33	10.85	74.67	18.89	73.17	18.78	71.83	17.14
neutral words	73.17	17.54	70.50	19.27	67.83	18.08	77.17	14.00	74.50	17.44	75.50	16.73
positive words	77.33	17.51	78.83	14.48	78.33	16.88	79.33	15.85	77.17	20.50	78.33	15.52

^a of all correctly recalled words