Discovery Misattribution: When Solving Is Confused With Remembering

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 577-592

  Dougal, Sonya ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

insight problem; memory misattribution; recognition; recollection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 36249001144     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.577     Document Type: Article

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