BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself
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Political Dogmatism Predicts Cognitive Task Performance
People who are more extreme at each end of the political spectrum were also more likely to be, um, more dogmatic in those attitudes. When we then regress those, the political dogmatism against, um, task performance, we found that just being able to perform a simple task didn't predict anything about political attitudes. So not hugely surprising there. What was perhaps more surprising was that your confidence level in the task was also not very good predictor. It wasn't just that people who are more dogmatic were over confident. Instead, it was that people are moreDogmatic had lower metacognitive sensitivity.
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