Hindsight bias: A by-product of knowledge updating?
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Hindsight bias: a by-product of knowledge updating?
With the benefit of feedback about the outcome of an event, people's recalled judgments are typically closer to the outcome of the event than their original judgments were. It has been suggested that this hindsight bias may be due to a reconstruction process of the prior judgment. A model of such a process is proposed that assumes that knowledge is updated after feedback and that reconstruction...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1939-1285,0278-7393
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.3.566