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The roles of differentiation and integration, metacognition and emotion regulation in increasing cognitive complexity
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.111191
Baruch, Ben
Good, David
Savage, Sara
Increasing cognitive complexity is an important outcome in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). This research maps factors that play a role in interventions that have raised complexity, presenting them in a moderated serial multiple mediation model. The factors include a newly-termed variable of differentiation and integration, metacognition, levels of negative affect, and emotion regulation. The model is then investigated empirically in a three-group online experiment run with participants from the Prolific participant database (N = 210). Complementing this, the model is interrogated in a real-world environment, when designing and delivering a training for mentors working with at-risk individuals. The revised model is offered to the field of cognitive complexity, while also holding insights for the fields of metacognition, affective science, emotion regulation, and P/CVE.
University of Cambridge
2023-11-10
Thesis
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
eng
UK Home Office
An Austrian benefactor
Darwin College and its benefactors
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2028-02-14
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Cognitive complexity
Counter violent extremism
Decentering
Differentiation
Emotion regulation
Integration
Integrative complexity
Meta-awareness
Metacognition
Violent extremism