The accuracy of meta-metacognitive judgments: Regulating the realism of confidence

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-253

  Buratti, Sandra ^a   Allwood, Carl Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence judgments; Debiasing; Metacognition; Recall; Recognition; Second order judgment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METACOGNITIVE JUDGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WITNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865772075     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0440-5     Document Type: Article

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