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Annika Boldt

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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. I am interested in metacognition and confidence, especially in the context of decision making.

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"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence

29.10.2025 16:22 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1

Very happy to see this out in Communications Psychology! Work done with @kobedesender.bsky.social and @yishusun.bsky.social at the ICN @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

13.11.2025 10:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Will I remember this? Individuals with high levels of compulsivity tend to forego using reminders to help them during memory tasks.

You can also check out the eLife digest here: elifesciences.org/digests/9811...

14.07.2025 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Transdiagnostic compulsivity is associated with reduced reminder setting, only partially attributable to overconfidence Highly compulsive individuals set fewer reminders, partly due to inflated confidence and partly due to compulsivity itself, revealing how individual differences shape the strategic reminder use in dai...

For a deeper dive into our findings, access our preprint here: elifesciences.org/articles/98114 Our work is supported by the Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social and conducted at the UCL ICN @ucl.ac.uk @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social‬. (7/8)

14.07.2025 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The reluctance to use external reminders among compulsive individuals implies a potential risk for inadequate memory support, with potential implications for clinical conditions such as OCD. (6/8)

14.07.2025 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This suggests that while compulsive individuals may be overconfident, their metacognitive control remains intact, challenging existing assumptions. (5/8)

14.07.2025 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Contrary to previous research, our data indicates no disrupted confidence-reminder link between compulsive and non-compulsive individuals. (4/8)

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Our findings reveal that more compulsive individuals show a decreased preference for setting external reminders, a behaviour only partially explained by their overconfidence. (3/8)

14.07.2025 14:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our study, involving 600 participants, builds on the prior finding that people tend to set more reminders when they are less confident. We asked whether transdiagnostic compulsivity would influence this relationship. (2/8)

14.07.2025 14:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our new study published in eLife (collaboration with @clairegillan.bsky.social, @celinef.bsky.social and @samgilbert.bsky.social) explores the complex relationship between metacognition, compulsivity and the utilization of external reminders. (1/8)

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