Words were presented by the experimenter. One hundred normal subjects were administered a reality monitoring task. In the following study we wished to examine the effects of emotional salience, cognitive effort and meta-cognitive beliefs on reality monitoring functioning in hallucination-prone subjects. Also, these factors have never been examined simultaneously. However, few studies have investigated these aspects in hallucination-prone subjects. Furthermore, previous studies suggest that factors such as the emotional salience of the material, cognitive effort and meta-cognitive beliefs are important contributory factors in this tendency to externalize internal information on reality monitoring tasks. A tendency to externalize internal information on reality monitoring tasks has been documented in psychiatric patients with hallucinations.
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