Metacognition in decision making across domains and modalities: evidence from three studies

• DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/v6psx
• Publication Date: 2024-04-08T14:42:45Z
• Authors: Audrey Mazancieux; Katarzyna Hat; Renate Rutiku; Michał Wierzchoń; Kristian Sandberg
• Keywords: Generality; Domain specificity; Modalities

Metacognition involves second-order judgments about first-order ones. It remains unclear whether an individual's confidence in being correct is generated by the same system across tasks (domain-generality) or it computed independently context of each task (domain-specificity). Previous studies have focused on correlations several tasks, yet evidence mixed and more complex models domain-generality were not taken into account. Analyzing data from 10 collected three (N between 253 547 participants), we found a fixed pattern cross-task for both metacognitive bias efficiency. In accordance with previous studies, that hierarchical estimation efficiency led to higher correlations. We used confirmatory factor analyses investigate existence general processes. weak module perceptual another cognitive tasks.