Explaining the Enigmatic Anchoring Effect: Mechanisms of Selective Accessibility

F. Strack; T. Mussweiler

DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.73.3.437

Corpus ID: 1095326

Explaining the Enigmatic Anchoring Effect: Mechanisms of Selective Accessibility

@article{Strack1997ExplainingTE,
  title={Explaining the Enigmatic Anchoring Effect: Mechanisms of Selective Accessibility},
  author={F. Strack and T. Mussweiler},
  journal={Journal of Personality and Social Psychology},
  year={1997},
  volume={73},
  pages={437-446}
}

F. Strack, T. Mussweiler

Published 1997

Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Results of 3 studies support the notion that anchoring is a special case of semantic priming; specifically, information that is activated to solve a comparative anchoring task will subsequently be more accessible when participants make absolute judgments. By using the logic of priming research, in Study 1 the authors showed that the strength of the anchor effect depends on the applicability of activated information. Study 2 revealed a contrast effect when the activated information was not… CONTINUE READING

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