Errors Committed with High Confidence Are Hypercorrected

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1491-1494

  Butterfield, Brady ^a   Metcalfe, Janet ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; REINFORCEMENT; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047685401     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.6.1491     Document Type: Article

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