Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6, Kraków, 30-060, Poland.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2021 Oct;28(5):1698-1706. doi: 10.3758/s13423-021-01913-0. Epub 2021 Apr 26.
Each of our decisions is associated with a degree of confidence. This confidence can change once we have acted because we might start doubting our choice or even become convinced that we have made a mistake. In this study, we explore the relations between action and our confidence that our decision was correct or erroneous. Fifty-four volunteers took part in a perceptual decision task in which their decisions could either lead to action or not. At the end of each trial, participants rated their confidence that their decision was correct, or they reported that they had made an error. The main results showed that when given after a response, confidence ratings were higher and more strongly related to decision accuracy, and post-response reports of errors more often indicated actual errors. The results support the view that error awareness and confidence might be partially based on postaction processing.
我们的每一个决策都伴随着一定程度的信心。一旦我们采取了行动，这种信心就可能会发生变化，因为我们可能开始怀疑自己的选择，甚至确信自己犯了错误。在这项研究中，我们探讨了行动与我们对自己决策正确或错误的信心之间的关系。54 名志愿者参与了一项感知决策任务，在该任务中，他们的决策要么导致行动，要么不导致行动。在每次试验结束时，参与者会对自己决策正确的信心进行评分，或者报告自己犯了错误。主要结果表明，当在做出反应后给出时，信心评分更高，与决策准确性的关系更强，并且做出反应后的错误报告更经常表明实际错误。这些结果支持了这样一种观点，即错误意识和信心可能部分基于行动后的处理。
