Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment
The question we addressed in the current study is whether the mere prospect of monetary reward gain affects subjective time perception. To test this question, we collected trial-based confidence reports in a task where participants made categorical decisions about probe durations relative to the ref...
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| description | The question we addressed in the current study is whether the mere prospect of monetary reward gain affects subjective time perception. To test this question, we collected trial-based confidence reports in a task where participants made categorical decisions about probe durations relative to the reference duration. When there was a potential to gain a monetary reward, the duration was perceived to be longer than in the neutral condition. Confidence, which reflects the perceived probability of being correct, was higher in the reward gain condition than in the neutral condition. We found that confidence influences the sense of time in different participants. Participants with high confidence reported perceiving the duration signaled by the monetary gain condition longer than participants with low confidence. Our results showed that only high confidence individuals overestimated the context of monetary gain. Finally, we found a negative relationship between confidence and time perception, and that confidence bias at the maximum uncertainty duration of 450 ms is predictive of time perception. Taken together, the current study demonstrates that subjective measures of the confidence profile caused an overestimation of time rather than the outcome valence of reward expectancy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-76873e8e56b943ae88846228156070a42025-02-11T05:36:32ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202025-01-01818810.5334/joc.414413Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration JudgmentMitra Taghizadeh Sarabi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9619-8175Eckart Zimmermann1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1964-2711Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfInstitute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 DüsseldorfThe question we addressed in the current study is whether the mere prospect of monetary reward gain affects subjective time perception. To test this question, we collected trial-based confidence reports in a task where participants made categorical decisions about probe durations relative to the reference duration. When there was a potential to gain a monetary reward, the duration was perceived to be longer than in the neutral condition. Confidence, which reflects the perceived probability of being correct, was higher in the reward gain condition than in the neutral condition. We found that confidence influences the sense of time in different participants. Participants with high confidence reported perceiving the duration signaled by the monetary gain condition longer than participants with low confidence. Our results showed that only high confidence individuals overestimated the context of monetary gain. Finally, we found a negative relationship between confidence and time perception, and that confidence bias at the maximum uncertainty duration of 450 ms is predictive of time perception. Taken together, the current study demonstrates that subjective measures of the confidence profile caused an overestimation of time rather than the outcome valence of reward expectancy.https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/414metacognitionreward processingtime perception |
| spellingShingle | Mitra Taghizadeh Sarabi Eckart Zimmermann Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment Journal of Cognition metacognition reward processing time perception |
| title | Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment |
| title_full | Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment |
| title_fullStr | Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment |
| title_short | Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment |
| title_sort | time is confidence monetary incentives metacognitive profile on duration judgment |
| topic | metacognition reward processing time perception |
| url | https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/414 |
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