Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 378-391

  Bernstein, Daniel M ^a,b   Erdfelder, Edgar ^c   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b   Peria, William ^b   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Executive function; Hindsight bias; Life span cognitive development; Mathematical models of cognition; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952459970     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021971     Document Type: Article

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