Moody experts- how mood and expertise influence judgmental anchoring

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-50

  Englich, Birte ^b   Soder, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anchoring effect; Assimilation; Expertise; Heuristics; Judicial decision making; Mood

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350153197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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