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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602372
Keywords
judgment; anchoring effect; numerical priming; semantic priming; scale distortion
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H01725, 20J10404, JP18H03501]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20J10404] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The study found that anchoring effects only occur when both numerical and semantic priming stimuli are presented together. When a number is presented alone or when phrases are used to induce semantic priming without presenting a number, anchoring effects do not occur.
The anchoring effect is a form of cognitive bias in which exposure to some piece of information affects its subsequent numerical estimation. Previous studies have discussed which stimuli, such as numbers or semantic priming stimuli, are most likely to induce anchoring effects. However, it has not been determined whether anchoring effects will occur when a number is presented alone or when the semantic priming stimuli have an equivalent dimension between a target and the stimuli without a number. We conducted five experimental studies (N = 493) using stimuli to induce anchoring effects. We found that anchoring effects did not occur when a number was presented alone or when phrases to induce semantic priming were used without presenting a number. These results indicate that both numerical and semantic priming stimuli must be presented for anchoring effects to occur. Our findings represent a substantial contribution to the literature on anchoring effects by offering insights into how these effects are generated.
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