Article ; Online: Mood and implicit confidence independently fluctuate at different time scales.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
2022 Volume 23, Issue 1, Page(s) 142–161
Abstract: Mood is an important ingredient of decision-making. Human beings are immersed into a sea of emotions where episodes of high mood alternate with episodes of low mood. While changes in mood are well characterized, little is known about how these ... ...
| Abstract | Mood is an important ingredient of decision-making. Human beings are immersed into a sea of emotions where episodes of high mood alternate with episodes of low mood. While changes in mood are well characterized, little is known about how these fluctuations interact with metacognition, and in particular with confidence about our decisions. We evaluated how implicit measurements of confidence are related with mood states of human participants through two online longitudinal experiments involving mood self-reports and visual discrimination decision-making tasks. Implicit confidence was assessed on each session by monitoring the proportion of opt-out trials when an opt-out option was available, as well as the median reaction time on standard correct trials as a secondary proxy of confidence. We first report a strong coupling between mood, stress, food enjoyment, and quality of sleep reported by participants in the same session. Second, we confirmed that the proportion of opt-out responses as well as reaction times in non-opt-out trials provided reliable indices of confidence in each session. We introduce a normative measure of overconfidence based on the pattern of opt-out selection and the signal-detection-theory framework. Finally and crucially, we found that mood, sleep quality, food enjoyment, and stress level are not consistently coupled with these implicit confidence markers, but rather they fluctuate at different time scales: mood-related states display faster fluctuations (over one day or half-a-day) than confidence level (two-and-a-half days). Therefore, our findings suggest that spontaneous fluctuations of mood and confidence in decision making are independent in the healthy adult population. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adult ; Humans ; Metacognition/physiology ; Reaction Time ; Visual Perception ; Discrimination, Psychological ; Affect ; Decision Making/physiology |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2022-10-26 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 2029088-3 |
| ISSN | 1531-135X ; 1530-7026 |
| ISSN (online) | 1531-135X |
| ISSN | 1530-7026 |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13415-022-01038-4 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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