Anchoring revisited: The role of the comparative question

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Grau, Ina ^a   Bohner, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOCALISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORD RECOGNITION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897984990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086056     Document Type: Article

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