Metacognitive Monitoring of Political Facts: Effects of Political Knowledge, Political Orientation, and Cognitive Style - PubMed
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- Participants were generally overconfident in their political knowledge, especially those with less political knowledge and more conservative.
- Conservatives showed worse relative metacognitive accuracy, and cognitive style partially explained differences due to political orientation.
- Political knowledge and orientation can act as metacognitive judgment cues, highlighting targets for intervention: knowledge, orientation, and cognitive style.