Positive versus negative face recognition decisions: Confidence, accuracy, and response latency

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-31

  Weber, Nathan ^a   Brewer, Neil ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALIBRATION; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WITNESS;

EID: 32344448244     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1166     Document Type: Article

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