@article{ref1,
title="Metacognitive evaluation in the avoidance of demand",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2016",
author="Dunn, Timothy L. and Lutes, David J. C. and Risko, Evan F.",
volume="42",
number="9",
pages="1372-1387",
abstract="In the current set of experiments our goal was to test the hypothesis that individuals avoid courses of action based on a kind of metacognitive evaluation of demand in a Demand Selection Task (DST). Individuals in Experiment 1 completed a DST utilizing visual stimuli known to yield a dissociation between performance and perceived demand. Patterns of demand avoidance followed that of perceived demand. Experiment 2 provided a replication of the aforementioned results, in addition to demonstrating a second dissociation between a peripheral physiological measure of demand (i.e., blink rates) and demand avoidance. Experiment 3 directly tested the assumption that individuals make use of a general metacognitive evaluation of task demand during selections. A DST was utilized in a forced-choice paradigm that required individuals to either select the most effortful, time demanding, or least accurate of 2 choices. Patterns of selections were similar across all rating dimensions, lending credit to this notion. <br><br>FINDINGS are discussed within a metacognitive framework of demand avoidance and contrasted to current theories. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/xhp0000236",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000236"
}