The Role of Short-Term Memory Capacity and Task Experience for Overconfidence in Judgment Under Uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1027-1042

  Hansson, Patrik ^a   Juslin, Peter ^b   Winman, Anders ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cognitive ability; confidence intervals; individual differences; subjective probability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 55049111928     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012638     Document Type: Article

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