The benefits of knowing what you know (and what you don't): How calibration affects credibility

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1368-1375

  Tenney, Elizabeth R ^a   Spellman, Barbara A ^a   MacCoun, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence; Confidence accuracy relation; Credibility; Eyewitness testimony; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749106397     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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