Cognitive Science & Psychology Division, ULAB

Intuitive metacognitive processes such as metaperception surprisingly have a lot moreinfluence on the intersectionality between interpersonal relations and health than one thinks. Of the many forms of metaperception, this paper aims to further explore the overblown implications effect (OIE), which is a prevalent metaperception error where one overestimates how much other people think of their successes or failures. We conducted a mixed ANOVA analysis and found further support for the statistically significant discrepancy between actors’ metaperception ratings and observers’ social perception ratings. For the extension, we continue to explore whether a longer rating duration for the actors would result in more accurate predictions of observers’ ratings compared to observers’ actual ratings by running a mixed ANOVA analysis. We hypothesized that increasing the rating duration would decrease the difference between the actors’ metaperception ratings and the observers’ social perception ratings, but our results show that there is no statistical significance between the two variables. However, it is important to note that we could not use the whole data provided due to statistical limitations. Hence, this makes it even more essential that future studies work with more representative samples to further understand the correlative factors that influence the OIE.