Higher height, higher ability: Judgment confidence as a function of spatial height perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Yan ^a   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Li, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ALTITUDE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960774954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022125     Document Type: Article

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