Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior

Abstract 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 th...

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Autores principales:	Axel Baptista, Maxime Maheu, Luc Mallet, Karim N’Diaye
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:25b5e2dea39f4df69143dd3a9c83c45b2021-12-02T18:48:02ZJoint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior10.1038/s41598-021-97958-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/25b5e2dea39f4df69143dd3a9c83c45b2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97958-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Axel BaptistaMaxime MaheuLuc MalletKarim N’DiayeNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
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description	Abstract 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.
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title	Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior
title_short	Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior
title_full	Joint contributions of metacognition and self-beliefs to uncertainty-guided checking behavior
title_fullStr	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

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