Self-assessed creative performance is slightly underestimated while self-assessed idea creativity is moderately overestimated¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2 · i0–i2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2028: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i0 Bias in self-assessed creative performance corresponds to a significant but very small underestimation (d = -0.19). → Lebuda 2025 q2 i2 Bias in self-assessed idea creativity corresponds to a significant moderate overestimation (d = 0.74). → Lebuda 2025 (2)

Evidence¶

Lebuda 2025¶

Lebuda, I., Hofer, G., & Benedek, M. (2025). Determinants of creative metacognitive monitoring: creativity, personality, and task-related predictors of self-assessed ideas and creative performance. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-025-09432-2

q2 · i0 · associational · r2

In the online study (N = 425), bias was computed by subtracting sample DT percentile from performance self-assessment; the article reports "a significant, but very small underestimation (d = -0.19, 95% BCa CI [-0.28, -0.09])".

"the bias in self-assessed creativity of performance corresponds to a significant, but very small underestimation (d = -0.19, 95% BCa CI [-0.28, -0.09])."

Lebuda 2025 (2)¶

Lebuda, I., Hofer, G., & Benedek, M. (2025). Determinants of creative metacognitive monitoring: creativity, personality, and task-related predictors of self-assessed ideas and creative performance. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-025-09432-2

q2 · i2 · associational · r2

Response-level bias was computed by subtracting external raters' creativity ratings from participants' self-ratings of their own ideas; the article reports "a significant, moderate overestimation (d = 0.74, 95% BCa CI [0.64, 0.84])".

"The bias in self-assessed creativity of ideas, however, corresponds to a significant, moderate overestimation (d = 0.74, 95% BCa CI [0.64, 0.84])."

Discussion¶

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