Overcoming the inevitable anchoring effect: Considering the opposite compensates for selective accessibility

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1142-1150

  Mussweiler, Thomas ^a   Strack, Fritz ^b   Pfeiffer, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034346303     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01461672002611010     Document Type: Article

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