To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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Abstract. This study explores the use of response time (RT) data in type-2 receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, a method traditionally used to examine the relationship between confidence ...

My name is Francisca Matias, and I am from Coimbra, Portugal. I have always been driven by a fascination with how the human brain perceives and constructs

Kumaran et al. show that large language model (LLM) confidence is shaped by two competing biases: a choice-supportive bias that inflates confidence in initial answers, and a systematic overweighting o...

Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

This research finds a strong recency bias in information gathering, attenuated in those on the OCD spectrum—a possible mechanism for indecisiveness. Behavioural and MEG data show reduced evidence updating in high-OC individuals.

Abstract. Visual imagery and external perception rely on similar representations. However, whether the same processes underpin the subjective appraisal of

Women and people with anxiety are both prone to low confidence in their own abilities, but a new study by UCL researchers has found that the two groups are prone to two distinct types of underconfiden...

Abstract. We have a fair understanding of what contributes to our confidence when performing individual trials of a task. However, little is known regardin