PsychologyCommunications Psychology
Metacognition biases information seeking in assessing ambiguous news
V. Guigon, M. C. Villeval, et al.
In a controlled experiment, participants judged ambiguous news and decided whether to seek extra information; confidence did not predict accuracy but was the main driver of demand for more information. News imprecision and polarization led to confident misinterpretations, and structural equation modeling showed disambiguation efforts became less effective. Research conducted by Valentin Guigon, Marie Claire Villeval, and Jean-Claude Dreher.
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