Fig. 1: Overview of the experimental task.
From: Self-utility distance as a computational approach to understanding self-concept clarity
During the first block, participants provided self-ratings for a set of 50 traits (e.g., ‘Responsible) on a scale from 1 (‘not at all’) to 100 (‘extremely’). In the second block, participants provided their estimations of trait utilities on the same set of traits and received trial-by-trial feedback showing the average utility rating for that trait by a reference group [others] (i.e., 232 psychology undergraduates). The difference between the participant’s utility rating and the feedback score represents the Prediction Error (PE). Judgments were separated by inter-trial intervals of 500 ms. This process was iterated for a set of 50 different traits.
