Metacognitive experiences and human judgment the case of hindsight bias and its debiasing

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 172-176

  Sanna, Lawrence J ^a,c   Schwarz, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Debiasing; Hindsight bias; Metacognition; Temporal judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748790915     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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