Metacognitive factors and alterations of attention related to predisposition to hallucinations

Emotion recognition in depression: An investigation of performance and response confidence in adult female patients with depression

“…On the other hand, if confidence in one's judgements is very low, negative consequences may occur, like overcautious behavior, delayed decision-making, and enhanced uncertainty in social interactions. Experimental tasks, as well as self-report data, such as that from the Cognitive Confidence subscale of the Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ; Wells and Cartwright-Hatton, 2004), suggest that patients with depression are underconfident (Cangas et al, 2006;Moore and Fresco, 2012;Moritz et al, 2010). To the best of our knowledge, no study exists on confidence judgements for emotion recognition in patients with Depressive Disorders (DD).…”

Are experiences of psychosis associated with unhelpful metacognitive coping strategies? A systematic review of the evidence

“…Studies utilizing student samples have found that higher levels of anxiety and private self‐consciousness are associated with increased hallucination proneness (Allen et al, ), and people with high hallucination proneness perform less well on attention‐focused tasks than those less prone (Cangas, et al, ). This is consistent with the proposal that increases in self‐focused attention may predispose a person to intrusions and may affect cognitive effectiveness.…”

Hallucinations and Related Perceptual Disturbance in a Non-Clinical Spanish Population

“…In this sense, it is noteworthy that the association between predisposition to hallucinations and negative affect has frequently been suggested (Allen et al, 2005;Cangas et al, 2006;Morrison et al, 2002;Paulik et al, 2006). On the other hand, Item 12 ('When I look at things, they look unreal to me') best relates to beliefs related to psychological concepts, such as the unconscious or conditioning, as the cause of the experience.…”