Stability and variability in the realism of confidence judgements over time, content domain, and gender

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 559-574

  Jonsson, Anna Carin ^a   Allwood, Carl Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cognitive style; Confidence; Gender; Individual stability; Knowledge domain; Metacognition; Need for Cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037353989     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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