How you ask is what you get: On the influence of question form on accuracy and confidence

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 711-726

  Ibabe, Izaskun ^a   Sporer, Siegfried Ludwig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WITNESS;

EID: 7744220945     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1025     Document Type: Article

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