Differential Effects of Experience and Information Cues on Metacognitive Judgments About Others’ Change Detection Abilities

Jeniffer Ortega*, Patricia Montañes, Anthony Barnhart, Gustav Kuhn

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Abstract

<jats:p> This study explored the interaction between visual metacognitive judgments about others and cues related to the workings of System 1 and System 2. We examined how intrinsic cues (i.e., saliency of a visual change) and experience cues (i.e., detection/blindness) affect people’s predictions about others’ change detection abilities. In Experiment 1, 60 participants were instructed to notice a subtle and a salient visual change in a magic trick that exploits change blindness, after which they estimated the probability that others would detect the change. In Experiment 2, 80 participants watched either the subtle or the salient version of the trick and they were asked to provide predictions for the experienced change. In Experiment 1, participants predicted that others would detect the salient change more easily than the subtle change, which was consistent with the actual detection reported in Experiment 2. In Experiment 2, participants’ personal experience (i.e., whether they detected the change) biased their predictions. Moreover, there was a significant difference between their predictions and offline predictions from Experiment 1. Interestingly, change blindness led to lower predictions. These findings point to joint contributions of experience and information cues on metacognitive judgments about other people’s change detection abilities. </jats:p>
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)204166952110392-204166952110392
Number of pages0
Journali-Perception
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

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