What you don't know: The role played by errors of omission in imperfect self-assessments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 488-505

  Caputo, Deanna ^a   Dunning, David ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors of omission; Ill defined problems; Self assessment; Self evaluation; Self perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 22744452533     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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