Not the same old hindsight bias: Outcome information distorts a broad range of retrospective judgments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 120-130

  Bradfield, Amy ^a   Wells, Gary L ^b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECALL BIAS; ADULT; ATTITUDE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 20644447099     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195302     Document Type: Article

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