“…Interestingly, we additionally found that early adolescents (12-13 years), and male participants, showed heightened confidence, in spite of the same level of performance across all age groups and in both sexes. Although this did not relate to advice taking behaviour, overall confidence has been found to be associated with self-esteem and psychiatric symptoms dimensions such as anxious-depression, compulsivity and intrusive thoughts (Moses-Payne, Rollwage, Fleming, & Roiser, 2019;Rouault, Seow, Gillan, & Fleming, 2018). Further, integration of evidence post-decision, a similar process to advice-taking, has been shown to be associated with depressive symptoms (Moses-Payne et al, 2019).…”