ABSTRACT
What the literature is not lled with are justications for why we should care about the metamemory of others. Clearly, we do rely on various types of metacognitive statements of others-for example, the probabilistic predictions of stock advisors and meteorologists. And we rely on the metamemory of others in a very important context-the courtroom-where jurors are oen swayed by the testimony of con- dent (but perhaps inaccurate) witnesses.
