The Fragile Basic Anchoring Effect

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-77

  Brewer, Noel T ^a   Chapman, Gretchen B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring bias; Basic anchoring effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036116306     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.403     Document Type: Article

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