The Curious Complexity between Confidence and Accuracy in Reports from Memory

Memory and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Roediger, Henry L ^a   Wixted, John H ^b   Andrew Desoto, K ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence and accuracy; Correlation; Eyewitness memory; False memories; High confidence errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066677223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199920754.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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