Self-insight research as (double) model recovery.
Self-insight assessment compares outcomes from two model-recovery exercises: a statistical exercise to infer a judge's (implicit) policy and an elicitation exercise whereby the judge describes his or her (explicit) policy. When these policies are mismatched, limited self-insight is not necessarily implied: Shortcomings in either exercise could be implicated, whereby Newell & Shanks' (N&S's) relevance or sensitivity criteria for assessing awareness may not be met. Appropriate self-insight assessment requires that both exercises allow the original processes to be captured.
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom. timrakow@essex.ac.uk http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/department/people/rakow.html.
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D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology