Metacognitive hindsight bias.
Hindsight bias (HB) is the tendency to see known information as obvious. We studied metacognitive hindsight bias (MC-HB)—a shift away from one's original confidence regarding answers provided before learning the actual facts. In two experiments, participants answered general-knowledge questions in s...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 731 - 745 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=144262113&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 144262113 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2020 vid: 48 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 144262113 10.3758/s13421-020-01012-w ppf: 731 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 926KB tig: atl: Metacognitive hindsight bias. aug: au: Ackerman, Rakefet Bernstein, Daniel M. Kumar, Ragav affil: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, 3200003, Haifa, Israel Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada su: Confidence Discrimination (Sociology) Memory Social skills Calibration Cognitive testing Research evaluation sug: subj: Confidence Discrimination (Sociology) Memory Social skills Calibration Cognitive testing Research evaluation keyword: Hindsight bias Metacognition Social cognition Hindsight bias Metacognition Social cognition ab: Hindsight bias (HB) is the tendency to see known information as obvious. We studied metacognitive hindsight bias (MC-HB)—a shift away from one's original confidence regarding answers provided before learning the actual facts. In two experiments, participants answered general-knowledge questions in social scenarios and provided their confidence in each answer. Subsequently, they learned answers to half the questions and then recalled their initial answers and confidence. Finally, they reanswered, as a learning check. We measured confidence accuracy by calibration (over/underconfidence) and resolution (discrimination between incorrect and correct answers), expecting them to improve in hindsight. In both experiments, participants displayed robust HB and MC-HB for resolution despite attempts to recall the initial confidence in one's answer. In Experiment 2, promising anonymity to participants eliminated MC-HB, while social scenarios produced MC-HB for both resolution and calibration—indicative of overconfidence. Overall, our findings highlight that in social contexts, recall of confidence in hindsight is more consistent with answers' accuracy than confidence initially was. Social scenarios differently affect HB and MC-HB, thus dissociating these two biases. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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