Accessibility experiences and the hindsight bias: I knew it all along versus it could never have happened

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1288-1296

  Sanna, Lawrence J ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^b   Small, Eulena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 0036923693     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213410     Document Type: Article

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