How do we know that we know? The accessibility model of the feeling of knowing.

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• Publication year

  1993

• Venue

  Psychology Review

• Publication date

  1993-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0033-295X.100.4.609PMID 8255951
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