Fig. 3: Participants’ self-performance estimates were sensitive to difficulty level, objective performance, and feedback presence.
From: Low self-esteem and the formation of global self-performance estimates in emerging adulthood
Self-performance estimates were measured as a task choice and b task ability ratings, each visualized here as a function of the absolute difference in performance between tasks, for a small, average, and large absolute difference in performance between tasks. Green (resp. orange) indicates easy (resp. difficult) tasks. Dotted lines (resp. full lines) indicate tasks without feedback (resp. with feedback). Error bars indicate SEM across participants (N = 57). Dots indicate individual data points; note that for task choices, task choice frequency took discrete values due to a limited number of data points per participant (see Methods). Significant effects of the difference in performance between tasks were found for end-of-block task choices (***p < .000001), except for when an easy-no-feedback task was paired with a difficult-no-feedback task (n.s.). For task ratings, there was a significant effect of the difference in performance between tasks in all blocks (***p < 0.0023).
