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Clarify the metacognitive capacity of decentering by synthesizing related constructs and delineating the common cognitive processes that contribute to mental health.

September 1, 2015Perspectives on Psychological ScienceOpen Access

Decentering and Related Constructs

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ABAmit BernsteinUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison YHYuval HadashCarnegie Mellon University YLYael LichtashCarmel (Israel)

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Conceptual review reveals three metacognitive processes underlying decentering across psychological constructs, indicating a unified mechanism critical for mental health.

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Clarify the metacognitive capacity of decentering by synthesizing related constructs and delineating the common cognitive processes that contribute to mental health.
Critically reviewed psychological literature covering decentering and overlapping constructs, such as self-distanced perspective, cognitive distancing, and cognitive defusion.
Integrated theoretical and empirical findings to formulate a unified metacognitive processes framework.
Identified that decentering-related constructs converge on three core metacognitive processes: meta-awareness, disidentification from internal experience, and reduced reactivity to thought content.
Demonstrated that these underlying metacognitive capacities qualitatively facilitate adaptive emotion regulation and improve psychological outcomes by diminishing distress caused by maladaptive thoughts.

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Bernstein et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ff9e856be84a7ac8854aee https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615594577

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Conceptual review reveals three metacognitive processes underlying decentering across psychological constructs, indicating a unified mechanism critical for mental health.

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