ReviewAustralian journal of psychology2023
Conflation between self-report and neurocognitive assessments of cognitive flexibility: a critical review of the Jingle Fallacy.
Review in Australian journal of psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The association between cognitive flexibility and creativity across childhood and adolescence: a scoping review.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The influence of cognitive flexibility on research abilities among medical students: cross-section study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- A psychometric examination of the cognitive flexibility scale and its association with Orthorexia Nervosa.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Subjective Assessment of Rdoc-Related Constructs in Addiction and Compulsive Disorders: A Scoping Review.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Review
- Executive function deficits in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder.Nature reviews. Psychology · 2024Article
- Testing associations between assessments of cognitive flexibility and eating disorder symptoms in adolescent bulimia nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- The importance of improving cognitive flexibility in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: The case for cognitive remediation therapy.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Measuring cognitive flexibility: A brief review of neuropsychological, self-report, and neuroscientific approaches.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Exploring Biomarkers of Mental Flexibility in Healthy Aging: A Computational Psychometric Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cognitive flexibility is a widely studied construct and is considered an important treatment target for several psychological disorders. The convergence of several independent fields of research has led to assumptions about the assessment of cognitive flexibility - assumptions that are not empirically supported and often conflate different notions of flexibility. This critical review discusses how the conflation of self-report and neurocognitive assessments has seemingly arisen from literature on eating disorders. We describe how seminal early observations of "inflexible" personality characteristics, communication competence research, and investigations of frontal lobe function after injury led to two methods of assessing "cognitive flexibility". We discuss the impact that conflation of self-report and neurocognitive assessments has had on the field, and we provide recommendations for assessing cognitive flexibility in both research and clinical settings.
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