Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior
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Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior. / Baptista, Axel; Maheu, Maxime; Mallet, Luc; N'Diaye, Karim.
In: SCI REP-UK, Vol. 11, No. 1, 19017, 24.09.2021.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior
AU - Baptista, Axel
AU - Maheu, Maxime
AU - Mallet, Luc
AU - N'Diaye, Karim
N1 - © 2021. The Author(s).
PY - 2021/9/24
Y1 - 2021/9/24
N2 - Checking behavior is a natural and adaptive strategy for resolving uncertainty in everyday situations. Here, we aimed at investigating the psychological drivers of checking and its regulation by uncertainty, in non-clinical participants and controlled experimental settings. We found that the sensitivity of participants' explicit confidence judgments to actual performance (explicit metacognition) predicted the extent to which their checking strategy was regulated by uncertainty. Yet, a more implicit measure of metacognition (derived from asking participants to opt between trials) did not contribute to the regulation of checking behavior. Meanwhile, how participants scaled on questionnaires eliciting self-beliefs such as self-confidence and self-reported obsessive-compulsive symptoms also predicted participants' uncertainty-guided checking tendencies. Altogether, these findings demonstrate that checking behavior is likely the outcome of a core explicit metacognitive process operating at the scale of single decisions, while remaining influenced by general self-beliefs. Our findings are thus consistent with two mechanisms (micro vs. macro) through which this otherwise adaptive behavior could go awry in certain psychiatric disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
AB - Checking behavior is a natural and adaptive strategy for resolving uncertainty in everyday situations. Here, we aimed at investigating the psychological drivers of checking and its regulation by uncertainty, in non-clinical participants and controlled experimental settings. We found that the sensitivity of participants' explicit confidence judgments to actual performance (explicit metacognition) predicted the extent to which their checking strategy was regulated by uncertainty. Yet, a more implicit measure of metacognition (derived from asking participants to opt between trials) did not contribute to the regulation of checking behavior. Meanwhile, how participants scaled on questionnaires eliciting self-beliefs such as self-confidence and self-reported obsessive-compulsive symptoms also predicted participants' uncertainty-guided checking tendencies. Altogether, these findings demonstrate that checking behavior is likely the outcome of a core explicit metacognitive process operating at the scale of single decisions, while remaining influenced by general self-beliefs. Our findings are thus consistent with two mechanisms (micro vs. macro) through which this otherwise adaptive behavior could go awry in certain psychiatric disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
KW - Adaptation, Psychological
KW - Compulsive Behavior/etiology
KW - Culture
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Judgment
KW - Male
KW - Metacognition/physiology
KW - Obsessive Behavior/etiology
KW - Self Concept
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Uncertainty
U2 - 10.1038/s41598-021-97958-1
DO - 10.1038/s41598-021-97958-1
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 34561475
VL - 11
JO - SCI REP-UK
JF - SCI REP-UK
SN - 2045-2322
IS - 1
M1 - 19017
ER -