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Is there a G factor for metacognition? Correlations in retrospective metacognitive sensitivity across tasks.
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) were significant, even for pairs of tasks in which first-order performance was not correlated. This suggests that at least some components of metacognitive efficiency in retrospective confidence are domain general. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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“The accuracy of such reflective judgments shares variance with other forms of metacognitive sensitivity rather than variance in IQ (Mazancieux et al. 2020, Rouault et al. 2018a).”
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“There is also emerging evidence that metacognitive capacity (measured as the noise in metacognitive judgments relative to performance) covaries across perceptual and cognitive tasks, suggesting the existence of a global resource that is leveraged to monitor self-performance (Boundy-Singer et al. 2023, Mazancieux et al. 2020, Rouault et al. 2018b).”
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“Behaviorally, individual differences in metacognitive efficiency have been shown to be correlated across distinct task domains, after controlling for correlations in performance (Ais et al. 2016, Faivre et al. 2018, Mazancieux et al. 2020, Rouault et al. 2018b).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mazancieux, A., Fleming, S. M., Souchay, C., & Moulin, C. J. A.
- Affiliations
- Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (FR)
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mazancieux, Audrey
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1788-1799
- ISSN
- 0096-3445 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2222
- PMC
- PMC7397761
- OpenAlex
- W3011402148
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 6
- FWCI
- 9.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology General (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University Grenoble Alpes
- Institut Universitaire de France
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Keywords
- metacognition, metacognitive sensitivity, metacognitive efficiency, domain generality, general intelligence
- MeSH terms
- Metacognition, Adolescent, Bayes Theorem, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Retrospective Studies, Visual Perception, Young Adult, Executive Function
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