BEYOND BIAS. INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE
Kasek Roland
Mental Health Sciences Division
Dr. Bódizs Róbert
SE Semmelweis Szalon
2025-11-03 13:00:00
Magatartástudományok
Dr. Kovács József
Dr. Lázár Imre
Dr. Datki Zsolt
Dr. Nagybányai-Nagy Olivér
Dr. Szabó László
Dr. Illés Anett
Dr. Kun Ágota
The main aim of the study was to reveal how self-assessment, personality traits and facial emotional expressions are interrelated, therefore we first have analysed the associations between our main variables then understood how the effects of the historical context – the COVID-19 crisis – affected our sample.
We investigated in line with three hypotheses to reveal how 1) self-assessment bias is associated with metamemory and decisional awareness, 2) how COVID-19 affected sexes and generations to different extents regarding cognitive performance, metacognitive effectiveness and self-assessment in terms of generational and sex differences, and finally to explore 3) how self-confidence (measured in self-assessment bias), personality traits and facial emotional expressions are interrelated.
We recruited a sample (n=1394) of adult, mentally healthy subjects who completed four computerized short-term memory tests of increasing complexity designed to investigate basic cognition, self-assessment and metacognitive abilities. We then eliminated extremely low and high performers, leaving a final sample of 354 subjects who were able to assess their performance equally optimistic or pessimistic on a Likert scale of 6. Then we filtered our original sample based on age (n=1385) to reveal intergenerational and sex differences during the COVID-19 crisis, to understand better the characteristics of our target sample (n=35) who attended a screening of artistic and artificial stimuli, where their facial emotional expressions were recorded and analysed by artificial intelligence.
Cognitive and metacognitive abilities—metamemory and decisional awareness—and self-assessment are associated with each other as hypothesised and results confirm our third hypothesis regarding “self-assessment bias in association with emotional expressivity – neutrality, saturation, transparency – and the display of anger and hostility. Our results indicate that self-assessment bias interplays in subconscious communication with empathetic skills and manipulation.” [17] The significant associations between self-assessment bias, performance, decisional awareness and metamemory provides clear evidence that self-assessment has a strong metacognitive faculty and without any feedback during the tests, involves intuitive processes and strongly associated with empathetic skills.
