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Variability in prior expectations explains biases in confidence reports

2017-04-13

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Confidence in a decision is defined statistically as the probability of that decision being correct. Humans, however, display systematic confidence biases, as has been exposed in various experiments. Here, we show that these biases vanish when taking into account participants' prior expectations, which we measure independently of the confidence report. We use a wagering experiment to show that modeling subjects' c...

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Literature Corpus work: 805e1182-639a-5042-b51a-1a1909ea4e56
DOI: 10.1101/127399

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