Incidental environmental anchors

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-251

  Critcher, Clayton R ^a,b   Gilovich, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

^b 211 Uris Hall ^*

Author keywords

Accessibility; Basic anchoring; Incidental anchoring; Numeric priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349141340     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.586     Document Type: Article

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