confidence-accuracy relationship / relation confiance-précision
Synonyms: accuracy–confidence relation
Synonymes : relation confiance-exactitude
Group: Human, Psychology, Thematic grouping Memory and Law
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie, Regroupement thématique Mémoire et justice
Domain: Psychology
Domaine : Psychologie
Semantic category: Human
Catégorie sémantique : Homme
Definition: The relationship between the level of confidence a person assigns to a memory (e.g. the level of confidence an eyewitness has in identifying the suspect) and the accuracy of the memory.
Définition : Relation entre le niveau de confiance qu’une personne attribue à un souvenir (par exemple, le niveau de confiance d’un témoin oculaire d’avoir identifié le suspect d’un crime) et l’exactitude du souvenir.
Broader term: memory phenomenon
Terme générique : phénomène de la mémoire
Related terms: legalPsych, confidence-accuracy characteristic curve, eyewitness testimony, calibration curve, sdtlu, pyWitness, fullROC, confidence judgment, police lineup, signal detection theory
Termes associés : legalPsych, courbe caractéristique confiance-exactitude, témoignage oculaire, courbe de calibrage, sdtlu, pyWitness, fullROC, jugement de confiance, tapissage, théorie de la détection du signal
Measured by: adjusted normalized resolution index, C calibration index, calibration, over/underconfidence index, point-biserial correlation coefficient
Selected bibliography: Arndorfer, A., & Charman, S. D. (2022). Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28(3), 414‑432. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000348 [Study type: empirical study, literature review / Access: closed], Brewer, N., Lucas, C., Sauer, J., & Palmer, M. (2021). Measuring the relationship between eyewitness identification confidence and accuracy. In A. M. Smith, M. P. Toglia, & J. M. Lampinen (Eds.), Methods, measures, and theories in eyewitness identification tasks (pp. 234–256). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003138105-14 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Roediger, H. L., & DeSoto, K. A. (2015). Understanding the relation between confidence and accuracy in reports from memory. In D. S. Lindsay, C. M. Kelley, A. P. Yonelinas, & H. L. Roediger (Eds.), Remembering: Attributions, processes, and control in human memory: Papers in honor of Larry L. Jacoby (pp. 347–367). Psychology Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wixted, J. T., & Wells, G. L. (2017). The relationship between eyewitness confidence and identification accuracy: A new synthesis. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 18(1), 10–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100616686966 [Study type: literature review / Access: free]
Dataset citations: Jaeger, A., Queiroz, M. C., Selmeczy, D., & Dobbins, I. (2019, December 13). Confidence Accuracy Dissociation During Source Memory Cueing. https://osf.io/fjp5d, Spearing, E. R., & Wade, K. A. (2021, April 23). The Effect of the Timing of Confidence Ratings on Accuracy: Confidence Calibration in Eyewitness Recall. https://osf.io/gqkyp, Van Boeijen, I. M. (2018, August 26). The Role of Eyewitness-Specific Metamemory on Identification Accuracy and the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship. https://osf.io/k23bs, Wixted, J. (2020, June 5). Discrete-state vs. continuous models of the confidence-accuracy relationship. https://osf.io/53vhq