Smith, Andrew R.; Windschitl, Paul D. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 6 (2011) 2, pp. 139-146
People must often perform calculations in order to produce a numeric estimate (e.g., a grocery-store shopper estimating … on calculations are influenced by comparisons with irrelevant anchors. Previous research has demonstrated that estimates … across a wide range of contexts assimilate toward anchors, but none has examined estimates based on calculations. In two …