Understanding, fast and shallow: Individual differences in memory performance associated with cognitive load predict the illusion of explanatory depth.
People are often overconfident about their ability to explain how everyday phenomena and artifacts work (devices, natural processes, historical events, etc.). However, the metacognitive mechanisms involved in this bias have not been fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to establish whether th...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 881 - 896 |
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