Don’t Look at My Answer: Subjective Uncertainty Underlies Preschoolers’ Exclusion of Their Least Accurate Memories

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1768-1776

  Hembacher, Emily ^a   Ghetti, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

confidence; control; memory; monitoring; open data; preschoolers; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNCERTAINTY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84908089808     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614542273     Document Type: Article

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