The impact of procedural priming of selective accessibility on self-generated and experimenter-provided anchors

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-51

  Chaxel, Anne Sophie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Cognitive load; Heuristics; Procedural priming; Selective accessibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884915663     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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