anchoring
Noun
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Noun
anchoring
- The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
- (psychology) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving unduly weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting the initial estimate of "20%" to "30%" when "90%" would be more appropriate.
- (psychology) focalism
- present participle of anchor#English|anchor
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