Metacognition and confidence: A review and synthesis

SM Fleming - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

Towards a common conceptual space for metacognition in perception and memory

A Mazancieux, M Pereira, N Faivre… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Engaging in metacognition (evaluating, controlling, and representing cognitive states) is
paramount for efficient behaviour. In this Review, we examine different types of cognitive …

Low self-esteem and the formation of global self-performance estimates in emerging adulthood

M Rouault, GJ Will, SM Fleming, RJ Dolan - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
High self-esteem, an overall positive evaluation of self-worth, is a cornerstone of mental
health. Previously we showed that people with low self-esteem differentially construct beliefs …

How do humans give confidence? A comprehensive comparison of process models of perceptual metacognition.

M Shekhar, D Rahnev - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans have the metacognitive ability to assess the accuracy of their decisions via
confidence judgments. Several computational models of confidence have been developed …

Optimal metacognitive control of memory recall.

F Callaway, TL Griffiths, KA Norman… - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Most of us have experienced moments when we could not recall some piece of information
but felt that it was just out of reach. Research in metamemory has established that such …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of metamemory beliefs to the font size effect on judgments of learning: Is word frequency a moderating factor?

T Fan, J Zheng, X Hu, N Su, Y Yin, C Yang, L Luo - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies found that metamemory beliefs dominate the font size effect on judgments
of learning (JOLs). However, few studies have investigated whether beliefs about font size …

Decision criteria in signal detection model are not based on the objective likelihood ratio.

X Hu, C Yang, L Luo - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
How people set decision criteria in signal detection model is an important research question.
The likelihood ratio (LR) theory, which is one of the most influential theories about criteria …

Normative and informational confidence matching.

M Friedemann, D Bang, N Yeung - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
When performing tasks in a social context, individuals tend to report confidence judgments
that increasingly align with those of others over time. However, the mechanisms underlying …

Are the contributions of processing experience and prior beliefs to confidence ratings domain-general or domain-specific?

X Hu, C Yang, L Luo - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous studies on domain generality of metacognition showed inconsistent results about
cross-domain correlation of metacognitive resolution, which might result from the varied …

The role of anchoring information in judgments of learning

K Ikeda, Y Hattori, Y Ito, Y Hamamoto - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
This study examined informative and uninformative anchoring effects on judgments of
learning (JOLs), focusing on two hypotheses: the optimistic/pessimistic and differential …