Metacognition–the ability to represent, monitor and control ongoing cognitive processes–
helps us perform many tasks, both when acting alone and when working with others. While …

Research on confidence spreads across several sub-fields of psychology and neuroscience.
Here, we explore how a definition of confidence as Bayesian probability can unify these …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

Drawing on sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of brain function, in this article we
construe psychiatric conditions as disorders of social interaction to fully account for their …

Many complex systems maintain a self-referential check and balance. In animals, such
reflective monitoring and control processes have been grouped under the rubric of …

To make good use of learning from others (social learning), we need to learn from the right
others; from agents who know better than we do. Research on social learning strategies …

Confidence judgements, self-assessments about the quality of a subject's knowledge, are
considered a central example of metacognition. Prima facie, introspection and self-report …