A literature review of the anchoring effect

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Boo, Hua Chu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A12 D03; Anchoring effects; Individual differences; Rewards

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650975095     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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