Surprise, defence, or making sense: What removes hindsight bias?

Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 421-441

  Pezzo, Mark V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF ESTEEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEEDBACK; FORECASTING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SPORTS;

EID: 0041989691     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210244000603     Document Type: Article

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