Trait anxiety does not correlate with metacognitive confidence or reminder usage in a delayed intentions task.

ABSTRACT: Setting external reminders provides a convenient way to reduce cognitive demand and ensure accurate retrieval of information for prospective tasks. Recent experimental evidence has demonstrated that the decision to offload cognitive information to external resources is guided by metacognitive belief, that is, individuals' confidence in their unaided ability. Other work has also suggested a relationship between metacognitive belief and trait anxiety. In the present study (N = 300), we bridged these two areas by investigating whether trait anxiety correlated with metacognitive belief and-consequently-propensity to offload information in a delayed intentions paradigm. Participants received a financial reward based on their ability to remember targets. However, participants could take a

SUBMITTER: Kirk PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8044609 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature