Metacognition in Health Judgment

健康判断中的元认知

基本信息

批准号：
6878049
负责人：
KIMBERLEE D WEAVER
金额：
$ 2.84万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-03-01 至 2005-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research is designed to advance current knowledge about the psychological processes underlying people's estimates of group norms and their role in individual-level health attitudes and behavior. Where past work demonstrates that social norms strongly influence people's personal health attitudes and behaviors, research on pluralistic ignorance shows that individuals often misjudge group norms. Thus, people's personal attitudes and behaviors may be affected by "norms" that do not actually exist. The proposed studies integrate work on metacognition with work on group perception to examine why people make such social judgment errors. Experiments 1-2 investigate whether individuals use their metacognitive experiences when making inferences about group support for health behaviors. These experiments manipulate participants' feelings of fluency for a norm and assess how it influences their perceptions of group support. Experiments 3-4 focus on the processes that underlie social influence via reference group norms. Where past work suggests that social influence may be a conscious and deliberative process, the current studies hypothesize it can also act automatically. Understanding the processes underlying social norm construction will advance current understanding of social judgment and give insight into how group-level judgments influence individual-level health behavior.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在促进人们对群体规范估计及其在个人水平健康态度和行为中的作用估计的心理过程的当前知识。过去的工作表明，社会规范会强烈影响人们的个人健康态度和行为，因此对多元化无知的研究表明，个人经常错误地判断群体规范。因此，人们的个人态度和行为可能会受到实际上不存在的“规范”的影响。拟议的研究将元认知的工作与小组感知的工作相结合，以研究人们为什么犯这种社会判断错误。实验1-2研究个人在推断对健康行为的群体支持时是否使用元认知经验。这些实验会操纵参与者对规范的流利感，并评估其如何影响他们对群体支持的看法。实验3-4专注于通过参考组规范来构成社会影响的过程。过去的工作表明社会影响可能是一个有意识和审议的过程，当前的研究假设它也可以自动采取行动。了解社会规范构建基础的过程将提高人们对社会判断的最新理解，并深入了解群体级别如何影响个人级别的健康行为。