Symmetrical choices and biased confidence during uncertain personality trait judgments.

ABSTRACT: While great methodological strides have been made in the area of decision making research, decisions that rely on subjective stimuli, such as personality traits, still pose a challenge for researchers, partly because it is difficult to define a standard of accuracy for such choices-they lack a "ground truth". In studies on value-based decisions, this same problem has been circumvented by comparing uncertain subjective decisions against a separately assessed judgment of value-a "standard". Here we apply this method in a task of verbal personality trait judgment, and show how a separately assessed standard judgment can be used to precisely control stimulus presentation and analyze subjective personality choices via the method of reverse correlation. Per trial, a series of quasi-randomly samp

SUBMITTER: Weise L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527456 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature