Most psychiatric disorders do not occur in isolation, and most psychiatric symptom
dimensions are not uniquely expressed within a single diagnostic category. Current …

Highlights•Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for depression has a rich theoretical
background in cognitive and learning theories.•Probes from modern computational cognitive …

Confidence is suggested to be a key component in psychiatry and manifests at various
hierarchical levels, from confidence in a decision (local confidence), to confidence about …

Human behaviours are guided by how confident we feel in our abilities. When confidence
does not reflect objective performance, this can impact critical adaptive functions and impair …

High self-esteem, an overall positive evaluation of self-worth, is a cornerstone of mental
health. Previously we showed that people with low self-esteem differentially construct beliefs …

Humans differ vastly in the confidence they assign to decisions. Although such under-and
overconfidence relate to fundamental life outcomes, a computational account specifying the …

Background A shift from goal-directed toward habitual control has been associated with
alcohol dependence. Whether such a shift predisposes to risky drinking is not yet clear. We …

When making decisions in everyday life, we often rely on an internally generated sense of
confidence to help us revise and direct future behaviours. For instance, confidence directly …

Adolescents aspire for independence. Successful independence means knowing when to
rely on one's own knowledge and when to listen to others. A critical prerequisite thus is a …

Objectives Cognitive and metacognitive deficits depict important factors in depression, but
the relationship between these concepts remains to be elucidated. The present study …