What have I just done? Anchoring, self-knowledge, and judgments of recent behavior

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-85

  Cheek, Nathan N ^a   Coe Odess, Sarah ^a   Schwartz, Barry ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Bias; Knowledge; Memory; Self knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921984138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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