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  • Behavioral Economics

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  • Metacognition, the ability to monitor one's own mental states, is crucial for decision-making.
  • Self-performance estimates (SPEs) are a key component of metacognition, particularly in complex tasks.
  • Understanding how SPEs are formed in complex decisions is an under-researched area.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how task difficulty and feedback influence SPEs in complex economic decision-making.
  • To compare metacognitive processes in complex economic decisions with those in simple perceptual decisions.
  • To elucidate the mechanisms underlying SPE construction in cognitively demanding scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in cognitively complex economic decision-making and simple perceptual decision-making tasks.
  • Task difficulty and the presence or absence of feedback were systematically varied.
  • Objective performance and self-performance estimates (SPEs) were recorded and analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Objective performance was influenced by task difficulty but not by feedback in both decision types.
  • In complex economic decisions, SPEs were lower without feedback only in easy trials.
  • In simple perceptual decisions, SPEs were lower without feedback in both easy and hard trials.

Conclusions:

  • Metacognitive estimation of performance in complex economic decisions differs for easy and hard trials.
  • Distinct metacognitive mechanisms appear to be employed for evaluating performance in varying task complexities.
  • Feedback's impact on SPEs is contingent on both task complexity and difficulty.