Controllability and hindsight components: Understanding opposite hindsight biases for self-relevant negative event outcomes

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 356-365

  Blank, Hartmut ^a   Peters, Jan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; VISION;

AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954680234     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.3.356     Document Type: Article

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