Psychological certainty has been the subject of a great deal of research across a number of
different literatures. This review focuses on prior and ongoing research on attitude certainty …

Widely deployed large language models (LLMs) can produce convincing yet incorrect
outputs, potentially misleading users who may rely on them as if they were correct. To …

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of humanlike characteristics to nonhuman entities, may
be resulting from a dual process: first, a fast and intuitive (Type 1) process permits to quickly …

Epistemic emotions such as surprise, curiosity, and confusion occur during epistemic
cognitive activities. They result from cognitive appraisals about the (mis-) alignment between …

According to the confidence heuristic, people are confident when they know they are right,
and their confidence makes them persuasive. Previous experiments have investigated the …

Besides providing functional support, socially assistive robots can provide social support in
the form of entertainment. Previous studies have shown that this type of social support …

In this research, we document the existence of broad ideological differences in judgment
and decision-making confidence and examine their source. Across a series of 14 studies …

Five experiments (N= 1710) demonstrate the central role of knowledge attributions in social
evaluations. In Experiments 1–3, we manipulated whether an agent believes, is certain of, or …

After making a lineup identification, eyewitnesses remember being more confident in their
identification and having a better view of the initial crime if they are told they correctly …

Many audit firms use client relationship management tools (eg, client satisfaction surveys);
however, overemphasizing relationship quality potentially makes auditors susceptible to …