Hot metacognition: poorer metacognitive efficiency following acute but not traumatic stress

Abstract Aberrations to metacognition—the ability to reflect on and evaluate self-performance—are a feature of poor mental health. Theoretical models of post-traumatic stress disorder propose that following severe stress or trauma, maladaptive metacognitive evaluations and appraisals of the event dr...

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Main Authors: Alicia J. Smith, James A. Bisby, Quentin Dercon, Anna Bevan, Stacey L. Kigar, Mary-Ellen Lynall, Tim Dalgleish, Caitlin Hitchcock, Camilla L. Nord
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2024-03-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02840-z