...-up requests, and whether confidence increased during the decision process. We found that confidence increased for participants that did not change their decision or seek disconfirming information. Two of the experiments indicated a confirmation bias in the selection of follow-up requests...

... has primarily focused on what people choose, less is known about how an individual consciously evaluates the choices they make. This sense of having made the right decision is known as subjective confidence. We investigated how subjective confidence is constructed across two moral contexts. In Study 1...

... no support for the frequency-percentage effect ( η 2 p = 0.00, 90% CI [0.00, 0.01]). However, we found support for associations with all four studies when treating numeracy as a continuous variable. We extended the replication to examine confidence, yet the results were mixed with support found for only...

... forfeiture thoughts. Congruency (vs. incongruency) also results in stronger feelings of validation. We follow up on these findings by suggesting a preregistered study that investigates both forfeiture and acquisition thoughts as well as confidence as a downstream consequence of the change initiated...