Anchoring: Accessibility as a cause of judgmental assimilation

Current Opinion in Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-70

  Strack, Fritz ^a   Bahník, Štěpán ^a   Mussweiler, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 84975466452     PISSN: 2352250X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.06.005     Document Type: Review

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