In this chapter, I review core themes and insights of metacognitive research, illustrate them
with representative findings, and address the implications of metacognitive processes for …

In order to examine metacognitive accuracy (ie, the relationship between metacognitive
judgment and memory performance), researchers often rely on by-participant analysis …

Metacognition is typically measured by collecting self-reported information from participants
while they complete a cognitive task. Recent evidence suggests that eliciting such …

There have been major advances in the field of metacognition since I took over as the
editorin-chief of the Metacognition and Learning journal in 2011. As the former editor of the …

Analyzing metacognition, specifically knowledge of accuracy of internal perceptual,
memorial, or other knowledge states, is vital for many strands of psychology, including …

The measurement of metacognition has gone through four overlapping phases: The first
phase began with the insightful and stimulating paper of Kreutzer, Leonard, and Flavell …

Human metacognition, or the capacity to introspect on one's own mental states, has been
mostly characterized through confidence reports in visual tasks. A pressing question is to …

Abstract The Dunning–Kruger effect refers to the observation that the incompetent are often
ill-suited to recognize their incompetence. Here we investigated potential Dunning–Kruger …

One important aspect of metacognition is the ability to accurately evaluate one's
performance. People vary widely in their metacognitive ability and in general are too …

In this introductory chapter, I describe what constitutes the domain of cognitive illusions and
how cognitive illusions can be characterized. Much debate has evolved around the classical …