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Metacognition is when people "assess how confident they are in the
cognitive processes in their own brain that produced [an] answer" -
how sure they are about a given fact or whether someone is
trustworthy. Some people are better at this than others, and "the
reason seems connected to a bit of brain just behind the eyes."