Paper on transdiagnostic underconfidence published in Nature Communications

Sucharit’s paper on how people learn to form global confidence estimates, and how this is distorted in people with higher anxiety and depression symptoms, is now published in Nature Communications. We find that systematic global underconfidence can be partly explained due to a failure to learn from instances of high local confidence - a distortion in metacognitive learning. This might have implications for explaining why people fail to correct for biases in self-perception, for instance in impostor syndrome.

Congratulations Sucharit!

The paper can be found here, and a writeup of our findings in the Danish media is here.