To assess the accuracy of an eyewitness testimony, ratings of memory confidence are often
used. However, memory accuracy and confidence are rarely studied in relation to individual …

Humans are not passive recipients of information from the external world. They are
“metacognitive” agents, actively engaged in self-referential monitoring of internally …

Prior familiarity with a face seems to substantively change the way we encode and
recognize later instances of that face. We report five experiments that examine the effects of …

Is confidence most diagnostic of accuracy when expressed in numbers or when expressed
in words? This question bears immense importance in many real-world contexts especially …

Memory judgments made by an individual may be affected by the memory judgments made
by another individual, a phenomenon named memory conformity. It is unclear, however …

Confidence-accuracy relationships have been of great interest in the study of
psychophysics, perception, and decision making, fields that have employed confidence …

Despite accounts of a consistent and strong association between confidence and memory
accuracy, they can be shown to dissociate. That belief in the truth of a memory may be …