It’s a lesson in scholastic humility: You waltz into an exam, confident that you’ve got a good enough grip on the class material to swing an 80 percent or so, maybe a 90 if some of the questions go ...

Metacognition* is the ability to: Think about your own thinking. Be consciously aware of yourself as a problem solver. Monitor, plan and control your mental processing. Accurately judge your level of ...

Compulsive washing in OCD is driven by unrelenting doubt. Metacognitive training for OCD A recent study conducted at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf by Dr. Steffan Moritz and Chantal ...

Students, and people in general, can tend to overestimate their own abilities. But new research shows that students who overcome this tendency score better on final exams. The boost is strongest for ...