The dud-alternative effect in memory for associations: Putting confidence into local context
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The dud-alternative effect in memory for associations: putting confidence into local context.
When participants are asked to provide confidence judgments for each provided alternative in a multiple-choice memory task, such judgments are inflated if the assessed alternatives are accompanied by an implausible (dud) alternative. This finding, termed the dud-alternative effect, has been recently documented in a memory setting with a lineup procedure (Charman, Wells, & Joy, Law & Human Behav...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0497-x