(Press-News.org) A new study finds that a lower confidence in one’s judgement of decisions based on memory or perception is more likely to be apparent in individuals with anxiety and depression symptoms, whilst a higher confidence is more likely to be associated compulsivity, thus shedding light on the intricate link between cognition and mental health manifestations.
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Article Title: Metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory
Author Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Funding: TXFS is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow (224051/Z/21/Z) based at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. SMF is a CIFAR Fellow in the Brain, Mind & Consciousness Program, and is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (selected as ERC Consolidator, grant number 101043666). TUH is supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (211155/Z/18/Z; 211155/Z/18/B; 224051/Z/21) from Wellcome/Royal Society, a grant from the Jacobs Foundation (2017-1261-04), the Medical Research Foundation, a 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator grant (27023) from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2021-040). This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust (211155/Z/18/Z). The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research is a joint initiative supported by UCL and the Max Planck Society. The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203147/Z/16/Z). For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. Funders did not play any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Mental health may be linked to how confident we are of our decisions
2025-03-05
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