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Anchoring in a Social Context: How the Possibility of Being Misinformed by Others Impacts One's Judgment
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Building on research about naïve theories of biases, we propose that people
are more likely to engage in critical thinking when assessing others’ reasoning. Hence, anchoring effects should be reduced when anchor values are
presented as others’ estimates and people perceive others as less knowledgeable (i.e., more prone to biases) than themselves. Three experiments
tested this hypothesis by presenting the same anchors as other participants’
answers or without a specifed source. This source manipulation was combined with explicit forewarnings about the anchoring effect, which have
been shown to trigger debiasing efforts. In support of our hypothesis, results
showed that anchors provided by a social source effectively reduced the
anchoring effect and did so in a more reliable way than forewarnings. Furthermore, the response-time analysis in two of the experiments suggests
that such attenuation was the result of deliberate adjustment.
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Anchoring-and-adjustment Naïve theories of bias Bias blind spot Heuristics and biases
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Reis, J., Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., Seruti, A., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2023). Anchoring in a social context: How the possibility of being misinformed by others impacts one's judgment. Social Cognition, 41(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.1.67
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Guilford Press