Decision Making in Moral Judgment Context is Modulated by Individual Metacognition
Hugo Osorio T.,
Gabriel Reyes M.
Abstract:Metacognition refers to the human capacity to access and monitor one's own mental states. Recent research suggests that this capacity expands to the social world, e.g., when individuals explicitly share their cognitive processes with others. Additionally, metacognition is also linked to cognitive flexibility, and the latter to ideologically radical behaviors. Indeed, the absence of control over one's own mental activity could be at the base of different phenomena linked to social cognition. We investigate the … Show more
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