Hindsight Bias From 3 to 95 Years of Age.
Upon learning the outcome to a problem, people tend to believe that they knew it all along (hindsight bias). Here, we report the first study to trace the development of hindsight bias across the life span. One hundred ninety-four participants aged 3 to 95 years completed 3 tasks designed to measure...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 378 - 392 |
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American Psychological Association
March 2011
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