Abstract

Meta-Reasoning refers to the set of processes that monitor and control our reasoning, decision-making and problem-solving thoughts and behaviours. Monitoring processes assess the quality of those thoughts and behaviours and are posited to have input to the control processes that may terminate, continue, or change processing. As an example, a commonly discussed monitoring process is the feeling of (un)certainty that accompanies an initial response to a situation, which, in turn, signals whether additional thought is required or whether the initial decision is adequate. In this talk, I will discuss how the meta-reasoning framework developed by Ackerman & Thompson (2017) can be expanded to shed light on processing in real-world contexts, such as medical and consumer decision-making, as well as to a variety of phenomenon, such as the sunk cost fallacy, that are not normally explained in terms of meteacognitive principles.