The hypercorrection effect persists over a week, but high-confidence errors return

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1238-1244

  Butler, Andrew C ^a   Fazio, Lisa K ^b   Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Knowledge; Memory; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355139702     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0173-y     Document Type: Article

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