Hindsight ≠ Hindsight: Experimentally Induced Dissociations Between Hindsight Components

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1399-1413

  Nestler, Steffen ^a   Blank, Hartmut ^b   Egloff, Boris ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creeping determinism; Foreseeability; Hindsight bias; Inevitability; Memory distortions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249245705     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020449     Document Type: Article

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