AUTHOR=Onuki Yutaro , Honda Hidehito , Ueda Kazuhiro TITLE=What Stimuli Are Necessary for Anchoring Effects to Occur? JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602372 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602372 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
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 (