Anchoring effect
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In psychology, an anchoring effect refers to the tendency of a person to anchor their current cognition to a previously considered standard. This can cause initial/prior info to unjustly affect judgments. The anchoring effect was demonstrated by Tversky and Kahneman in their 1974 article "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases," in Science Magazine.
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