6- and 8-year-olds’ performance evaluations: Do they differ between self and unknown others?

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 315-336

  Destan, Nesrin ^a   Spiess, Manuela A ^a   de Bruin, Anique ^b   van Loon, Mariëtte ^a,b   Roebers, Claudia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confidence judgments; Crediting; Development; Metacognition; Monitoring; Self versus other performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019081551     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-017-9170-5     Document Type: Article

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