Anchors aweigh: A demonstration of cross-modality anchoring and magnitude priming

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-26

  Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a   LeBoeuf, Robyn A ^b   Brewer, Noel T ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Assimilation; Cross modal; Judgment; Physical quantities; Priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DRAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 36849064698     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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