• DOI:10.1080/135062800394865
Corpus ID: 14623812

Change Blindness Blindness: The Metacognitive Error of Overestimating Change-detection Ability

@article{Levin2000ChangeBB,
  title={Change Blindness Blindness: The Metacognitive Error of Overestimating Change-detection Ability},
  author={D. Levin and Nausheen Momen and S. Drivdahl and D. Simons},
  journal={Visual Cognition},
  year={2000},
  volume={7},
  pages={397 - 412}
}

• D. Levin, Nausheen Momen, +1 author D. Simons
• Published 2000
• Psychology
• Visual Cognition

Recent research has demonstrated that subjects fail to detect large between-view changes to natural and artificial scenes. Yet, most people (including psychologists) believe that they would detect the changes. We report two experiments documenting this metacognitive error. In Experiment 1, students in a large General Psychology class were asked if they thought they would notice the change in four different situations previously tested by Levin and Simons (1997) and Simons and Levin (1998). Most… Expand

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