Daniel Bernstein
Daniel Bernstein appears on this site as first author of a 2011 Journal of Experimental Psychology study of hindsight bias in people aged 3 to 95.
Who they are
The work of Daniel Bernstein reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Hindsight Bias.
Key papers
Bernstein, D. M., Erdfelder, E., Meltzoff, A. N., Peria, W., & Loftus, G. R. (2011). Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(2), 378-391. What it reports: Tested 194 people aged 3 to 95 on three tasks. Every age group showed hindsight bias, with preschoolers and older adults showing more than older children and younger adults.
Key ideas
Hindsight Bias: Once you know how something turned out, you lose the ability to reconstruct what you believed before you knew.
Sources
- Bernstein, D. M., Erdfelder, E., Meltzoff, A. N., Peria, W., & Loftus, G. R. (2011). Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(2), 378-391.