Hindsight Bias - A Special Issue of Memory

With hindsight, we tend to exaggerate what we had known with foresight. This volume explores this phenomenon.

List of contents

U. Hoffrage, R.F. Pohl, Introduction. R.F. Pohl, M. Eisenhauer, O. Hardt, SARA - A Cognitive Process Model to Simulate the Anchoring Effect and Hindsight Bias. R. Hertwig, C. Fanselow, U. Hoffrage, Hindsight Bias: How Knowledge and Heuristics Affect Our Reconstruction of the Past. O. Hardt, R.F. Pohl, Hindsight Bias as a Function of Anchor Distance and Anchor Plausibility. S. Schwarz, D. Stahlberg, Strength of the Hindsight Bias as a Consequence of Meta-cognitions. L. Werth, F. Strack, An Inferential Approach to the Knew-it-all-along Phenomenon. M.V. Pezzo, Surprise, Defence, or Making Sense: What Removes the Hindsight Bias? M.M. Mark, R. Reiter, K.M. Eyssell, L.L. Cohen, S. Mellor, "I Couldn't Have Seen it Coming": The Impact of Negative Self-relevant Outcomes on Retrospections about Foreseeability. B. Renner, Hindsight Bias after Receiving Self-relevant Health-risk Information: A Motivational Perspective. H. Blank, V. Fischer, E. Erdfelder, Hindsight Bias in Political Elections. J. Musch, Personality Differences in Hindsight Bias.

About the author

Ulrich Hoffrage, Rüdiger Pohl

Summary

With hindsight, we tend to exaggerate what we had known with foresight. This special issue of Memory explores this phenomenon.

Additional text

'This collection of articles represents a great contribution towards the literature on hindsight bias and towards our understanding of the origin of this phenomenon, while opening many interesting new paths for research.' - Gaelle Villejoubert, Applied Cognitive Psychology

Product details

• Assisted by: Ulrich Hoffrage (Editor), Hoffrage Ulrich (Editor), Rudiger Pohl (Editor), Rüdiger Pohl (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781841699387
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-938-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 430 g
• Series: Special Issues of Memory; Special Issues of Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; memory, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning