Older and younger adults' hindsight bias after positive and negative outcomes.

ABSTRACT: After learning about facts or outcomes of events, people overestimate in hindsight what they knew in foresight. Prior research has shown that this hindsight bias is more pronounced in older than in younger adults. However, this robust finding is based primarily on a specific paradigm that requires generating and recalling numerical judgments to general knowledge questions that deal with emotionally neutral content. As older and younger adults tend to process positive and negative information differently, they might also show differences in hindsight bias after positive and negative outcomes. Furthermore, hindsight bias can manifest itself as a bias in memory for prior given judgments, but also as retrospective impressions of inevitability and foreseeability. Currently, there is no research

SUBMITTER: Groß J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8763826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature