Cognition, Behavior, and Memory
Author: Iair Embon | email: iairembon@gmail.com
Iair Embon 1°2°, María Agostina Gerbaudo 2°3°, Alberto Andrés Iorio 3°, Alejandro Ramos Usaj 1°, Pablo Barttfeld 2°, Guillermo Solovey 1°
1° Instituto de Cálculo, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. CP: 1428
2° Cognitive Science Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi, CONICET-UNC), Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina. CP: 5000
3° Instituto de Investigaciones en Psicología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. CP: 1207
Metacognition is defined as the capacity to evaluate ones own cognitive processes. That evaluation is accompanied by a sense of confidence about whether it was correct or not. Their relation with dysfunctional personality traits (DPT) is still unknown, although it has been suggested that people with some personality disorders have difficulties knowing their own mental states. The present research aims at exploring the relationship between metacognition and DPT, as well as confidence and DPT. We conducted an online experiment in which neurotypical adults performed a perceptual task and then completed the Personality Disorder Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5). Furthemore, a multiverse analysis approach was performed for each question in this exploratory study. We found that Anxiousness was positively associated with metacognitive sensitivity and Grandiosity was positively related with confidence level. No other statistically significant dysfunctional personality traits or domains were observed in any or most of the analyses. The results of the present study support the link between metacognition and anxiety, and between confidence levels and grandiosity, also provide a possible association between metacognition and mental health.