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Illusion Of Knowing

Illusion of Knowing is a metacognitive illusion in which an individual confidently believes they have mastered or understood material despite an absence of actual comprehension or retention, thereby leading to inaccurate self-assessment and suboptimal learning regulation.

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Knowing with certainty: The appropriateness of extreme confidence.

Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 1977 · 1.4K citations

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How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality

Alison Gopnik · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1993 · 962 citations

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Content and Self-Knowledge

Paul Boghossian · Philosophical Topics · 1989 · 512 citations · Full text

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What determines initial feeling of knowing? Familiarity with question terms, not with the answer.

Lynne M. Reder, Frank E. Ritter · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 1992 · 446 citations

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The Feeling of Knowing: Some Metatheoretical Implications for Consciousness and Control

Asher Koriat · Consciousness and Cognition · 2000 · 437 citations

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Authors

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    Elizabeth J. Marsh

    Duke University, United States

    3 publications · 177 citations

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    Christopher Moore

    Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 56 citations

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  3. AL
    Anne L. Fay

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    2 publications · 148 citations

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  4. SG
    Sam Glucksberg

    Princeton University, United States

    2 publications · 150 citations

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  5. KS
    Kenneth Savtisky

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 209 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    513 citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    638 citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    774 citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

  6. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    787 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  8. Texas Christian University

    Fort Worth, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    96 citations

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  2. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

    3 publications · 225 citations

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  3. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    2 publications · 410 citations

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