Failing to predict future changes in memory: A stability bias yields long-term overconfidence

Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 365-386

  Kornell, Nate ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84866757251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203842539     Document Type: Chapter

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