Accuracy, Confidence, and Calibration: How Young Children and Adults Assess Credibility

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1065-1077

  Tenney, Elizabeth R ^a   Small, Jenna E ^a   Kondrad, Robyn L ^a   Jaswal, Vikram K ^a   Spellman, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Calibration; Confidence; Credibility; Testimony

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALIBRATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CALIBRATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960470251     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023273     Document Type: Article

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