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More decisive people tend to be more confident in their judgments than those who second-guess themselves, despite not actually making better decisions

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More decisive people tend to be more confident in their judgments than those who second-guess themselves, despite not actually making better decisions

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268501

Article Title: Are you confident enough to act? Individual differences in action control are associated with post-decisional metacognitive bias

Author Countries: Poland, U.K.

Funding: Preparation of this article was supported by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant ‘Diamentowy Grant’ (DI2014 0081 44). The first author (WZ) was the only beneficiary of the grant. Information about the grant can be found under this URL: https://www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/diamentowy-grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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