Manipulating belief partially remedies the metamemory expectancy illusion in schema-based source monitoring.
Metamemory illusions (i.e., false predictions of memory) are thought to arise from false a priori beliefs or from experiences made during study, such as processing fluency. The aim of the current research was to isolate the contribution of belief to metamemory by testing whether a correction of fals...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 401 - 420 |
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