Hindsight bias in insight and mathematical problem solving: Evidence of different reconstruction mechanisms for metacognitive versus situational judgments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 822-837

  Ash, Ivan K ^a   Wiley, Jennifer ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 46449097533     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.4.822     Document Type: Article

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