Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect¶
Strack, F., & Mussweiler, T. (1997). Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect: Mechanisms of selective accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(3), 437-446.
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Primes¶
- Anchoring
- Structural tension: The anchor-distance scaling principle shows that extreme anchors produce stronger anchoring effects even when irrelevant (a random 1000 vs. 10 produces larger divergence than a random 55 vs. 45), yet the anchor magnitude effect interacts with relevance: relevant anchors at moderate distance produce different effect sizes than irrelevant anchors at extreme distance.
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The abstract supports only the relevance-interaction clause: anchor-effect strength depends on the applicability of activated information; it states no magnitude or distance numbers.
“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 representative for the absolute judgment and the targets of the 2 judgment tasks were sufficiently different.”
- Structural tension: The anchor-distance scaling principle shows that extreme anchors produce stronger anchoring effects even when irrelevant (a random 1000 vs. 10 produces larger divergence than a random 55 vs. 45), yet the anchor magnitude effect interacts with relevance: relevant anchors at moderate distance produce different effect sizes than irrelevant anchors at extreme distance.
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