Cognitive self-awareness — distinct from emotional self-awareness — is your ability to accurately model your own thinking patterns. It includes knowing which types of problems you solve well, which cognitive biases you are most susceptible to, and how your performance changes under different conditions.
Research by Pronin (2008) showed that people systematically perceive their own reasoning as less biased than others' reasoning (the "bias blind spot"). This makes external feedback — like MindFrame's precision scoring — essential for developing accurate self-knowledge.
Normann & Morina (2021) found metacognitive therapy (which explicitly targets cognitive self-awareness) produced an effect size of g = 0.69 versus CBT for anxiety and depression, suggesting that awareness of thinking patterns has benefits far beyond performance.