TY - JOUR
T1 - When Your Judgment (Mis)Matches Mine
T2 - How One’s Self and Others’ Metacognitive Judgments Impact Our Perception of Others
AU - Jang, Yoonhee
AU - Lee, Heungchul
AU - Son, Lisa K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - The current study explored whether other people’s judgments about one’s own performance affect one’s perception of them. In two experiments, participants were provided with scenarios of high (e.g., 90%) or low (e.g., 70%) estimations of exam performance from “others” and “themselves”, as compared to a fixed, benchmark performance score (e.g., 80%). Accordingly, there were four conditions varying by other- and self-estimations: high–high, high–low, low–high, and low–low. Participants were asked to choose the one, given a series of all possible pairs of two peers, who they would get along with better; and who they thought noticed/observed them better. Results showed that participants judged that they would get along with the other who overestimated their performance, suggesting that individuals exhibit a preference for others who demonstrate overconfidence in their abilities. However, they ranked the other with matching (to their own) estimations—either overconfident or underconfident—as having noticed/observed them better. These patterns were consistently found in Likert-scale responses. The results indicate that metacognitive judgments need not necessarily be matching when assessing the performance of another to form relationships, and that both the context and the relation between one’s self and other’s judgments play a large role in social perception.
AB - The current study explored whether other people’s judgments about one’s own performance affect one’s perception of them. In two experiments, participants were provided with scenarios of high (e.g., 90%) or low (e.g., 70%) estimations of exam performance from “others” and “themselves”, as compared to a fixed, benchmark performance score (e.g., 80%). Accordingly, there were four conditions varying by other- and self-estimations: high–high, high–low, low–high, and low–low. Participants were asked to choose the one, given a series of all possible pairs of two peers, who they would get along with better; and who they thought noticed/observed them better. Results showed that participants judged that they would get along with the other who overestimated their performance, suggesting that individuals exhibit a preference for others who demonstrate overconfidence in their abilities. However, they ranked the other with matching (to their own) estimations—either overconfident or underconfident—as having noticed/observed them better. These patterns were consistently found in Likert-scale responses. The results indicate that metacognitive judgments need not necessarily be matching when assessing the performance of another to form relationships, and that both the context and the relation between one’s self and other’s judgments play a large role in social perception.
KW - confidence judgments
KW - metacognition
KW - social cues
KW - social perception
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85216255191&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/educsci15010022
DO - 10.3390/educsci15010022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85216255191
SN - 2227-7102
VL - 15
JO - Education Sciences
JF - Education Sciences
IS - 1
M1 - 22
ER -