Abstract
The idea of a common currency underlying our choice behaviour has played an important
role in sciences of behaviour, from neurobiology to psychology and economics. However,
while it has been mainly investigated in terms of values, with a common scale on which
goods would be evaluated and compared, the question of a common scale for subjective
probabilities and confidence in particular has received only little empirical investigation so
far. The present study extends previous work addressing this question, by showing that
confidence can be compared across visual and auditory decisions, with the same precision
as for the comparison of two trials within the same task. We discuss the possibility that confidence could serve as a common currency when describing our choices to ourselves and to others.
others.