An individual's knowledge is collective in at least two senses: it often comes from other
people's testimony, and its deployment in reasoning and action requires accuracy …

In peer instruction, instructors pose a challenging question to students, students answer the
question individually, students work with a partner in the class to discuss their answers, and …

Judging the perspective of others often requires ignoring one's own accessible knowledge.
Aging increases reliance on the most available knowledge and may decrease the …

Confidence is commonly assumed to monitor the accuracy of responses. However,
intriguing results, examined in the light of philosophical discussions of epistemic justification …

To succeed in a social world, we must be able to accurately estimate what others know. For
example, teachers must anticipate student knowledge to plan lessons and communicate …

General knowledge questions are used across a variety of research and clinical settings to
measure cognitive processes such as metacognition, knowledge acquisition, retrieval …

We explored the impact of depth of knowledge on conversational agents and human
perceptions in a virtual reality (VR) environment. We designed experimental conditions with …

The influential metacognitive framework of Nelson and Narens (1990) distinguishes
between object-level and meta-level, with two metacognitive processes, monitoring and …

Besides learners' awareness of their knowledge, a growing number of studies also
emphasise the importance of teachers' awareness of how well their students perform to …

People are often overconfident in their own cognitive abilities. We investigated whether
overconfidence extends to judgments from or about other people, and tested various …