Subliminal anchoring: The effects of subliminally presented numbers on probability estimates

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 380-387

  Reitsma van Rooijen, Margreet ^a   L Daamen, Dancker D ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Numeric priming; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645909912     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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