Overconfidence: Feedback and item difficulty effects

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-133

  Pulford, Briony D ^a   Colman, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031185029     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(97)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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