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Subjective confidence acts as an internal cost-benefit factor when choosing between tasks
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Upon making a decision, we typically have a sense of the likelihood that the decision we reached was a good one; that is, a degree of confidence in our choice. In a series of five experiments, we tested the hypothesis that confidence acts as an intrinsic cost-benefit factor when choosing between tasks, biasing people toward situations in which they experience higher confidence. Participants performed a task-selection paradigm in which they chose on each trial between two perceptual-judgment t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1037/xhp0000747
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 729–748
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1939-1277
- ISSN:
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0096-1523
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1099155
- Local pid:
- pubs:1099155
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-08
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- American Psychological Association
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 APA, all rights reserved.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the American Psychological Association at: https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000747
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