Confidence-Accuracy Calibration with General Knowledge and Eyewitness Memory Cued Recall Questions

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-295

  Luna, Karlos ^a   Martín Luengo, Beatriz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CALIBRATION; CONFIDENCE; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; WITNESS;

EID: 84857795652     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1822     Document Type: Article

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