The effect of metacognitive self on confirmation bias revealed in relation to community and competence

• Authors: Hanna Brycz , Magdalena Wyszomirska-Góra , Yoram Bar-Tal , Piotr Wiśniewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of our study was to investigate the role of insight into one’s own biases (metacognitive self) in the process of hypothesis validation in accordance to the two fundamental social perception domains (community and competence) on the example of confirmation bias. The study was conducted on a group of 593 participants with the use of a confirmation bias procedure, a free recall procedure and the Metacognitive Self scale. We manipulated with the domain and the value of information given to the respondents. We suspected that individuals with a high metacognitive self, in opposition to low metacognitive self ones, would not process the given information according to the two fundamental social perception domains. The results verified the existence of an interaction effect of the metacognitive self (MCS) and the domain of the information given about a perceived person on the susceptibility to follow the confirmation bias. Contrary to the low metacognitive self individuals, who show a higher tendency for the confirmation bias within the competence than the community domain, persons with a high insight into their own biases express the same level of confirmation bias in no respect to the domain of the information. The value of the information has no significant influence.

Keywords

EN

metacognitive self; social perception; community; competence; cognitive biases; confirmation bias

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 306-311

Dates

published

2014-09-01

online

2014-09-09

Contributors

author

Hanna Brycz

• Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Poland

author

Magdalena Wyszomirska-Góra

• Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Poland

author

Yoram Bar-Tal

• Health Department, Tel- Aviv University

author

Piotr Wiśniewski

• Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ppb-2014-0037