title: Adult age differences in hindsight bias: The role of recall ability.
abstract: Hindsight bias, that is, the overestimation of one's prior knowledge of outcomes after the actual outcomes are known, is stronger in older than young adults (e.g., Bayen, Erdfelder, Bearden, & Lozito, 2006). The authors investigated whether age differences in the recall of original judgments account for this difference. Multinomial model-based analyses of data from a hindsight memory task revealed that biased reconstruction of original judgments was equally likely in both age groups when recall of original judgments was lowered in young adults via a manipulation of retention interval. These results support a recall-based explanation of age differences in hindsight bias.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Groß
authors.affiliation: Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: Ute J
authors.initials: UJ
authors.lastname: Bayen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D015982:Bias; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult