SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND CONFIDENCE CALIBRATION

Abstract

This experiment examined the effect of attentionally irrelevant visual stimuli on subjective confidence calibration. Participants identified target letters that were flanked by letters that differed with respect to their response congruency to the target response. The key result was the finding of higher overconfidence in incongruent flanker conditions, even when presentation time manipulations were successful in equating accuracies across the three flanker conditions.