Post-decisional accounts of biases in confidence

By Joaquin Navajas, Bahador Bahrami, Peter E. Latham. 2016

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Most models of decision-making suggest that confidence, the ‘feeling of knowing’ that accompanies our choices, is constructed as the decision unfolds. However, more recent studies have noted that processes occurring after we commit to a particular choice also affect this subjective belief. This leads to the following question: when are we better judges of ourselves? If, after a decision, evidence continues to accumulate in an unbiased manner, then our confidence judgements should improve. Conversely, if post-decisional information processing is biased, our sense of confidence could be distorted, and so our confidence judgements should degrade with time. We briefly discuss recently proposed models of post-decisional evidence accumulation, and explore whether, and how, biases in confidence could arise.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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