Considering The Impossible: Explaining The Effects of Implausible Anchors
@article{Mussweiler2001ConsideringTI, title={Considering The Impossible: Explaining The Effects of Implausible Anchors}, author={Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack}, journal={Social Cognition}, year={2001}, volume={19}, pages={145-160} }
Research on judgmental anchoring - the assimilation of a numeric estimate towards a previously considered standard - has demonstrated that implausible anchors produce large effects. We propose an insufficient adjustment plus selective accessibility account for these effects. Specifically, judges may adjust from an implausible anchor until a plausible value for the target is reached and may then test the hypothesis that the target’s extension is similar to this value. If this is indeed the case…
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