Abstract: Searching for and accessing online information through search engines causes digital media users to become overconfident in their own knowledge – in a sense, to attribute online knowledge to themselves. If searching the internet ...
Abstract: Research demonstrates that people outsource memory work to digital devices and to the web, which consequently engenders elevated self-assessments, such as enhanced cognitive self-esteem (CSE). Yet, the reasons for this phenomenon ...
Self Regulation: Dead End or a Path with a Research Perspective? Comments on the Contributions of the Special IssueSummary: This commentary first highlights potential reasons for the current importance of the concept of self-regulated learning in ...
Zusammenfassung: Nach dem Stichprobenansatz (Fiedler, 2000) entstehen viele Urteilsfehler nicht unbedingt durch kognitive Defizite, sondern durch den Prozess des Sammelns von Informationen. Die daraus resultierende Informationsstichprobe kann aus ...
Abstract. Children and adults are mostly too optimistic when assessing their understanding of complex causal entities. Only when asked to explain the underlying mechanisms of such entities, their metacognitive self-assessment becomes more realistic. The ...
Abstract. There is much room for improvement in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The current study introduces a newly developed version of Metacognitive Training for OCD (MCT-OCD), inspired by ...
Cognitive biases and metacognition in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)Abstract. The psychological and cognitive impairments from multiple sclerosis (MS) have been in the focus of both patients and physicians for several ...
We investigated if metacognitive thinking and knowledge acquisition in dyads improve individual problem solving performance and transfer to new problems. In the learning phase, participants solved several Tower of Hanoi problems and half of them were ...
A developmental study was conducted that investigated 7- to 11- years-olds’ ability to strategically regulate their memory performance. The study, based on Koriat and Goldsmith’s (1996) theoretical framework, sought to stimulate strategic regulation ...
We investigated the psychometric properties of a French translation of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ). 265 participants from the French-speaking population of Belgium completed the MCQ. Construct validity was assessed by means of a factor analysis,...
Abstract. This study investigated the empirical differentiation of prospective memory, executive functions, and metacognition and their structural relationships in 119 elementary school children (M = 95 months, SD = 4.8 months). These cognitive abilities ...
Metacognitions and interoceptive sensibility in the perception of premonitory urges in tic disorders across the lifespanAbstract.Objective: Depending on contextual factors, the prevalence of premonitory urges (PU) ...
Metacognitive therapiesMetacognition is an umbrella term that has been adopted by different clinical theories. A common denominator of these models is that they are concerned with cognitive processes (i. e., how people think) contributing to mental ...
Metacognitive and social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Impact on functioning and treatment strategiesThe group of schizophrenias concerns heterogeneous psychopathological syndromes that are often associated with neurocognitive impairment and poor ...
Identifying and correcting cognitive biases: A pilot study on the Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT)Dysfunctional beliefs and cognitive biases play an important role in the formation and maintenance of depression according to current cognitive ...
The treatment of mental disorders with metacognitive interventions using the example of the metacognitive training for depression (D-MCT)Abstract. Over the last decade, psychotherapeutic interventions labelled “...
The influence of metacognitions and prior misinformations on children's eyewitness identificationsAbstract. The present study was conducted to examine the role of metacognitive monitoring processes in the applied setting of an eyewitness identification ...
Determinants of performance prediction in kindergarten and school children: The importance of metacognitive and motivational factorsAbstract. Research on procedural metamemory in young children has repeatedly shown that preschoolers and kindergarten ...
“The cause of the greenhouse effect is a hole in the atmosphere”: Naive thinking against one’s better judgmentAbstract. The title of this paper quotes a statement that predominantly met with approval within the International Social Survey Program (1993) ...