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- noun 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.
- verb Present participle of
anchor .
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Examples
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Chase said seeing more than one choice might also help doctors move away from what he called "anchoring," or getting too attached to a diagnosis.
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Has also blocked eight shots thus far in anchoring Hawks '2-1 start.
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Sabean similarly argues for the importance of women in anchoring kin networks in early-modern Germany, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 379 – 97. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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I have a few more introspective playlists too … anchoring is a good thing.
5 Clever Ways To Keep Your Muse On Speed Dial | Write to Done 2008
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Oh, this is good, - ¿ said the guide, anchoring from the bow and getting out a couple of medium-weight spinning rods rigged with hook and cork bobber.
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006
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Whether she is out reporting on the street or anchoring from the desk.
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Then they are put back onto their properties by cranes and the short anchoring is secured again.
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Here anchoring is inseparable from adjusting to how fluid movement creates
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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The third systematic bias is referred to as anchoring and adjustment.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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The third systematic bias is referred to as anchoring and adjustment.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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