Anchoring Effects

Judgments and decisions pulled toward an initial reference point, called an anchor, even when the anchor is arbitrary. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes this pull toward a reference point. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Anchoring Effects rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.