Hindsight Bias: A By-Product of Knowledge Updating?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 566-581

  Hoffrage, Ulrich ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; CUES; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034185661     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.3.566     Document Type: Article

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