Looking at mental effort appraisals through a metacognitive lens: Are they biased?

K Scheiter, R Ackerman, V Hoogerheide - Educational Psychology Review, 2020 - Springer
A central factor in research guided by the Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is the mental effort
people invest in performing a task. Mental effort is commonly assessed by asking people to …

Reactivity to measures of metacognition

KS Double, DP Birney - Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Metacognition is typically measured by collecting self-reported information from participants
while they complete a cognitive task. Recent evidence suggests that eliciting such …

Misinformed and unaware? Metacognition and the influence of inaccurate information.

NA Salovich, DN Rapp - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The current study investigated the role of metacognition with respect to the consequences of
exposures to inaccurate information. Previous work has consistently demonstrated that …

Confidence judgments interfere with perceptual decision making

KS Double, DP Birney - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Determining one's confidence in a decision is a vital part of decision-making. Traditionally,
psychological experiments have assessed a person's confidence by eliciting confidence …

Confidence ratings increase response thresholds in decision making

B Li, X Hu, DR Shanks, N Su, W Zhao, L Meng… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Many mental processes are reactive–they are altered as a result of introspection and
monitoring. It has been documented that soliciting trial-by-trial confidence ratings (CRs) …

Intelligence is cognitive flexibility: why multilevel models of within-individual processes are needed to realise this

DP Birney, JF Beckmann - Journal of Intelligence, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite substantial evidence for the link between an individual's intelligence and successful
life outcomes, questions about what defines intelligence have remained the focus of heated …

Individual differences in the reactivity effect of judgments of learning: Cognitive factors

W Zhao, S Liu, X Tian, B Li, DR Shanks, C Yang… - Journal of Memory and …, 2025 - Elsevier
An emerging body of studies has demonstrated that asking participants to make concurrent
judgments of learning (JOLs) during learning can reactively change (typically enhance) their …

Progressing the development of a collaborative metareasoning framework: Prospects and challenges

BH Richardson, LJ Ball - Journal of Intelligence, 2024 - mdpi.com
Metareasoning refers to processes that monitor and control ongoing thinking and reasoning.
The “metareasoning framework” that was established in the literature in 2017 has been …

Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs About Neuroscience and Education—Do Freshmen and Advanced Students Differ in Their Ability to Identify Myths?

I Deibl, J Zumbach - Psychology Learning & Teaching, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Addressing and creating awareness on the topic of neuromyths in educational sciences has
increased in recent years. We know very little about how widespread the belief in …

Sophisticated statistics cannot compensate for method effects if quantifiable structure is compromised

DP Birney, JF Beckmann, N Beckmann… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Researchers rely on psychometric principles when trying to gain understanding of
unobservable psychological phenomena disconfounded from the methods used …