Metacognition as a window into subjective affective experience
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences June 17, 2024 Cody A Cushing, Ha-Kwan Lau, Stefan G Hofmann et al.
When patients seek professional help for mental disorders, they often do so because of troubling subjective affective experiences. While these subjective states are at the center of the patient's symptomatology, scientific tools for studying them and their cognitive antecedents are limited. Here, we explore the use of concepts and analytic tools from the science of consciousness, a field of...