Simons slides a pair of Polaroids across the table. They depict a couple of color-lit high schoolers standing in what appears to be an empty warehouse.

She poked him hard in the ribs with the sword – once, twice, thrice, even fourice.

Our results thus offer a metaperceptual complement to Balcomb and Gerken’s experiment on young children’s metamemory, where young children are found to be able to reliably monitor their memory for paired items and to control their decision accordingly (accepting or skipping stimuli).

Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.