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  • Metacognition
  • Decision Making

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  • Intention offloading involves using external reminders for future intentions, like medication alerts.
  • Metacognition, particularly confidence, influences intention offloading decisions, independent of cognitive ability.
  • The cross-domain organization of metacognitive influences on intention offloading requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between perceptual confidence and intention offloading across different cognitive domains.
  • To investigate whether individual differences in confidence predict both the likelihood and strategy of intention offloading.
  • To determine if metacognitive signals influencing offloading are domain-general or task-specific.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed perceptual discrimination tasks with accuracy standardized using a staircase procedure.
  • Two measures of intention offloading were assessed in a subsequent memory task: reminder setting likelihood and bias.
  • Objective accuracy and confidence judgments were recorded during perceptual tasks.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual confidence positively correlated with the overall likelihood of setting reminders.
  • Perceptual confidence did not correlate with the bias in reminder-setting strategy.
  • Individual differences in confidence reflected objective ability, even after performance equalization via staircasing.

Conclusions:

  • Intention offloading is shaped by both general and specific metacognitive signals.
  • Confidence differences reflect objective ability, complicating their use as a pure measure of metacognitive bias.
  • Metacognitive influences on intention offloading are complex and domain-dependent.