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The interplay of memory and judgment processes in effects of aging on hindsight bias.
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Hindsight bias is the phenomenon that after people are presented with the correct answer to a question, their judgment regarding their own past answer to this question is biased toward the correct answer. In three experiments, younger and older adults gave numerical responses to general-knowledge questions and later attempted to recall their responses. For some questions, the correct answer was provided during recall (Experiment 1) or before recall (Experiments 2 and 3). Multinomial model-based analyses show age differences in both recollection bias and reconstruction bias when the correct judgment was in working memory during the recall phase. The authors discuss implications for theories of cognitive aging and theories of hindsight bias.Copyright 2006 APA
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Author/s: Bayen, Ute J (UJ); Erdfelder, Edgar (E); Bearden, J Neil (JN); Lozito, Jeffrey P (JP);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. ubayen(-atsign-)unc.edu
Grants: R01 AG17456 (Agency:NIA NIH HHS)
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Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2006-Sep; vol 32 (issue 5) : pp 1003-18
Dates: Created 2006/08/29; Completed 2006/12/20; Revised 2007/12/03;
PMID: 16938042, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)
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