Confidence–accuracy relations for real and suggested events

Abstract

Participants completed a multiple item, multiple event version of a traditional misinformation procedure, as well as a battery of individual difference measures. The relation between memory accuracy and selfreported confidence was assessed through the comparison of items involving misinformation and items not involving misinformation. Selected individual differences in the confidence–accuracy relation were also examined for items that did and did not involve false post-event information. Results indicated significant differences between the measure of the confidence–accuracy relationship for misinformation and non-misinformation items. Several significant, although weak, individual difference correlates of the confidence–accuracy relations were also found.