Empirical evidence indicates that people can provide accurate evaluations of their own
thoughts and actions by means of both error detection and confidence judgments. This study …

Is metacognition a general resource shared across domains? Previous research has
documented consistent biases in judgments across tasks. In contrast, there is debate …

Metacognition and self-awareness are commonly assumed to operate as global capacities.
However, there have been few attempts to test this assumption across multiple cognitive …

Individual differences in metacognitive accuracy are generally thought to reflect differences
in metacognitive ability. If so, memory monitoring performance should be consistent across …

Metacognition refers to a set of processes an individual uses in monitoring ongoing
cognition so as to effectively control his or her own behavior. In this article, I discuss key …

Abstract Zylberberg et al.[Zylberberg, Barttfeld, & Sigman (Frontiers in Integrative
Neuroscience, 6; 79, 2012), Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6: 79] found that …

The metacognitive sense of confidence can play a critical role in regulating decision making.
In particular, a lack of confidence can justify the explicit, potentially costly, instrumental …

People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

What I have come to call “meta-cognitive myopia”(MM), using a term once suggested by
Robyn Dawes, is the phenomenon that people are pretty accurate in utilizing even large …

People think about their thoughts and decisions a lot, such as when they judge how well
they are performing a task or evaluate the quality of their decision processes and products …