期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
卷 128, 期 1, 页码 45-70出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000249
关键词
metacognition; confidence; perceptual decision making; computational model; metacognitive noise
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health [R56MH119189]
Research shows that human metacognitive ability decreases with higher confidence levels, leading to a non-linear zROC curve. A new mechanistic model incorporating lognormally distributed metacognitive noise better explains metacognitive inefficiency.
Humans have the metacognitive ability to judge the accuracy of their own decisions via confidence ratings. A substantial body of research has demonstrated that human metacognition is fallible but it remains unclear how metacognitive inefficiency should be incorporated into a mechanistic model of confidence generation. Here we show that, contrary to what is typically assumed, metacognitive inefficiency depends on the level of confidence. We found that, across 5 different data sets and 4 different measures of metacognition, metacognitive ability decreased with higher confidence ratings. To understand the nature of this effect, we collected a large dataset of 20 subjects completing 2,800 trials each and providing confidence ratings on a continuous scale. The results demonstrated a robustly nonlinear zROC curve with downward curvature, despite a decades-old assumption of linearity. This pattern of results was reproduced by a new mechanistic model of confidence generation, which assumes the existence of lognormally distributed metacognitive noise. The model outperformed competing models either lacking metacognitive noise altogether or featuring Gaussian metacognitive noise. Further, the model could generate a measure of metacognitive ability which was independent of confidence levels. These findings establish an empirically validated model of confidence generation, have significant implications about measures of metacognitive ability, and begin to reveal the underlying nature of metacognitive inefficiency.
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