Our Registered Report on metacognition and the "richness of perception" debate is now online at Royal Society Open Science!
*Iconic versus working memory metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception: a registered report* doi.org/10.1098/rsos... by Comay, Solovey & Barttfeld.
New pre-print! **Confidence phenotypes: a unified computational account of value and decision certainty in reinforcement learning** by @ncomay.bsky.social, @guillermosolovey.bsky.social & @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps.... Feedback is welcome!
This new #RSOS Registered Report looks at iconic vs. working memory #metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cogscigroup.bsky.social @ncomay.bsky.social @guillermosolovey.bsky.social @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social
New study by @ncomay.bsky.social, @guillermosolovey.bsky.social & @pablobarttfeld.bsky.social at JEP:lmc: "Decisions are based on less information than metacognitive judgments in multialternative contexts" doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets yesterday in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest the collapse of science in the country, which they say was initiated by their government.
https://go.nature.com/43QWX4f
Vamos que armamos la versión local!
The paper is now part of the collection “The psychology of conspiracy and misinformation beliefs” together with a lot of interesting papers on this topic.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Our study conceptually replicates and extends previous research, with a novel focus on political statements (rather than fake news). It also adds evidence from a Spanish-speaking country (Argentina), often underrepresented in misinformation studies.
We also found 📌 weak (unreliable) evidence for a positive association between cognitive reflection and truth discernment. 📌 cognitive reflection did not reliably increase partisan bias.
Interestingly, political concordance enhanced truth discernment, albeit accompanied by a shift in response bias. Partisan bias was much larger than the improvement of truth discernment with political concordance.
We found reliable evidence that:
📌 higher political concordance➡️ more overall belief (i.e. partisan bias).
📌 higher political concordance➡️ better truth discernment.
📌 higher cognitive reflection ➡️ lower overall belief (more scepticism).
Happy to share our new paper:
Misinformation belief 🤝 Signal Detection Theory and Bayesian modeling
A registered-report study to understand how partisanship and cognitive reflection explain belief in (true/false) political statements. Key findings below.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
