Hypothesis-Consistent Testing and Semantic Priming in the Anchoring Paradigm: A Selective Accessibility Model

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 136-164

  Mussweiler, Thomas ^b   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anchoring heuristic; selective accessibility; hypothesis consistent testing; semantic priming.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033479334     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1998.1364     Document Type: Article

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