Current interpersonal models suggest that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by interpersonal difficulties. Individuals with SAD and fear of showing bodily symptoms also suffer from interpersonal problems, such as not being open and avoidance of expressing insecurity. Training in social skills could, therefore, be an effective approach.We examined the overall anddifferential effects...

For over a century, psychologists have investigated the mental processes of expert performers - people who display exceptional knowledge and/or skills in specific fields of human achievement. Since the 1960s, expertise researchers have made considerable progress in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie such exceptional performance. Whereas the first modern studies of e...

This paper presents a series of psychometric meta-analysis on the relationship between cognitive reflection (CR) and several abilities (i.e., intelligence, numerical ability, verbal mechanical-spatial working memory), skills numeracy skills). Also, bifactor analysis carried out to determine whether CR is related but independent factor or second-stratum in hierarchical model intelligence. Finall...

Both cognitive and social-cognitive deficits impact functional outcome in schizophrenia. Cognitive remediation studies indicate that targeted cognitive and/or social-cognitive training improves behavioral performance on trained skills. However, the neural effects of training in schizophrenia and their relation to behavioral gains are largely unknown. This study tested whether a 50-h interventio...

Acquisition of embodied skills in sports can be regarded as a process in which an athlete explores how to move his or her own body. It is important for an athlete to explore his or her own body movements in order to construct an internal skill model. Meta-cognitive verbalization about one’s own body movements is one of the methods for accelerating the exploration process. The literature indicat...

Meditation is often associated with a relaxed state of the body. However, meditation can also be regarded as a type of mental task and training, associated with mental effort and physiological arousal. The cardiovascular effects of meditation may vary depending on the type of meditation, degree of mental effort, and amount of training. In the current study we assessed heart rate (HR), high-freq...