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Social Influences on Metacognition| old_uid | 14867 |
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| title | Social Influences on Metacognition |
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| start_date | 2014/12/19 |
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| schedule | 16h30-18h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Metacognitive evaluations refer to the processes by which people assess their own cognitive operations and decisions. Although much is known about social influences on decision making, it remains elusive how susceptible metacognitive evaluations of those decisions are to social input. I will first present data from two behavioural experiments with which we investigated whether non-verbal social signals (i.e. gaze) involuntarily impact metacognitive evaluations. In both experiments the participants performed a perceptual decision task, which was followed by the presentation a face randomly gazing towards or away from the response chosen by the participant. Participants then provided a metacognitive evaluation of their response by rating their confidence in their response. The results of the two experiments together strongly suggest a susceptibility of metacognitive evaluations to non-verbal social information, even when the information is unreliable and presented implicitly. In the second part of my talk I will present preliminary results of a recent fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) study which showed that one's level of confidence after a perceptual decision affects the neural processing of subsequent social input. I will discuss these results in terms of the role of metacognition in social learning and epistemic vigilance. |
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| oncancel | Terry Eskenazi's talk on metacognition will be rescheduled for the spring. |
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| responsibles | Strickland |
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