The relation between personality and the realism in confidence judgements in older adults

European Journal of Ageing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-291

  Dahl, Mats ^a   Allwood, Carl Martin ^b   Rennemark, Mikael ^c   Hagberg, Bo ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big five; Calibration; Elderly people; Metamemory; Personality; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649961301     PISSN: 16139372     EISSN: 16139380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-010-0164-2     Document Type: Article

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