Confidence reports in decision-making with multiple alternatives violate the Bayesian confidence hypothesis

Conventional theory suggests that people’s confidence about a decision reflects their subjective probability that the decision was correct. By studying decisions with multiple alternatives, the authors show that confidence reports instead reflect the difference in probabilities between the chosen an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hsin-Hung Li, Wei Ji Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15581-6