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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Anchoring and Adjustment"”.
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The anchoring and adjustment heuristic in unstructured interviews: an experimental study
The presence of anchoring and adjustment within structured interviews has been widely observed in research over the years. However, the unstructured interview is a more extensively used selection tool than the structured interview, making it important to understand anchoring and adjustment in the …
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Judgment Processes in Motivation: Anchoring and Adjustment Effects on Judgment and Behavior
Task motivation (i.e., the allocation of time and effort to a task) is an important behavioral domain that has received little attention from judgment and decision making researchers. However, in several theories of motivation, including expectancy theories and the theory of behavior in …
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Examining the presence of anchoring and adjustment in stock market investment decisions by Stefan Els.
… market crashes in less than two decades, understanding the forces at work in the modern stock market is more important than ever before. The anchoring and adjustment heuristic has often been described as one of the psychological forces influencing investment decisions but little research has been …
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An examination of how buyers subjectively perceive and evaluate product bundles
… examines how buyers evaluate a bundle of items and how perceptions of savings are formed in the context of a bundle offer. Two conceptual models were developed and tested: 1) a model of the bundle's acquisition value, and 2) a model of the bundle's transaction value. Based on behavioral decision …
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Source credibility and similarity of self-generated and externally-provided anchors predicts final responses: A metacognitive perspective of the anchoring heuristic
… anchors (SGAs), source credibility and the similarity between SGAs and externally-provided anchors (EPA) influence anchoring through metacognitive processing. Participants were asked to respond to two trivia questions and were required to express their initial estimates (i.e., SGAs) …
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Effects of purchase and presentation order on the valuation of physical and digital good bundles
… also come on physical mediums, such as movies and games on discs. We investigate how the order of purchase (buying a digital copy of a good already owned in physical form or vice versa) and order of presentation (considering one form of the good and then a bundle of both) can affect consumer …
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Reducing the property appraisal bias with decision support systems: an experimental investigation in the South African property market
… valuation tasks for manual valuation are time-demanding and cognitively challenging. Behaviourists have observed that valuation accuracy and variations are mainly caused by human adaptive approaches called cognitive shortcuts. Of particular interest for valuation tasks is the susceptibility of …
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Self-control, expectations, and patience : essays on social decision making
Essay 1: Self-Control and Altruism: The Moderating Role of Endowments. People exhibit a remarkable ability to cooperate with one another, to an extent that critically distinguishes human society from communities of other primate and animal species. Although altruism plays an essential role in …
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Contextual Behavioral Influences of Perceptions of Relationship Partners: An Analogue Study
… of available information, learning history, and motivational variables on interpersonal perceptions. Results from 89 participants indicated that providing clear discriminative stimuli for the behavior of tacting interpersonal similarity significantly influenced perceived similarity. Results …
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Three essays on corporate default prediction : special reference to corporate governance, default correlation and capital structure dynamics
… to corporate governance, default correlations and capital structure adjustment. Granting a loan requires mutual trust between lenders and borrower and depends on the flow of information. The relevance and the accuracy of the information are necessary to ensure the best judgement about the …