The effects of emotional salience,cognitive effort and meta-cognitive beliefs on a reality monitoring task in hallucination-prone subjects.
Objectives. A tendency to externalize internal information on reality monitoring tasks has been documented in psychiatric patients with hallucinations. Furthermore, previous studies suggest that factors such as the emotional salience of the material, cognitive effort and meta-cognitive beliefs are i...
| Published in: | British Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 221 - 234 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2004
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