The correction of errors committed with high confidence

By Brady Butterfield, Janet Metcalfe. 2006

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. John Dunlosky
2. Tamara van Gog
3. H. Roediger III
4. Kathleen B. McDermott
5. J. V. van Merriënboer
6. Anique B. H. de Bruin
7. M. Loon
8. P. Agarwal

In Social Psychology

1. H. Roediger III
2. Kathleen B. McDermott
3. J. V. van Merriënboer
4. John Dunlosky
5. Tamara van Gog
6. Anique B. H. de Bruin
7. Jason M. Watson

Citations in the corpus

• Test format and corrective feedback modify the effect of testing on long-term retention (2007, background): “In addition, Butterfield and Metcalfe (2006) found that subjects focus more attention on corrective feedback when they make an erroneous response with high confidence.”
• Refutations in science texts lead to hypercorrection of misconceptions held with high confidence (2015, background): “People are more surprised when feedback contradicts their high-confidence misconceptions than their low-confidence ones, so they might pay extra attention to the correct information, which in turn leads to the hypercorrection effect (Butterfield & Metcalfe, 2006; Metcalfe & Finn, 2011, 2012).”