Term ID: T0151

Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic

/anchoring-and-adjustment-heuristic/
Decision-making shortcut where people use a starting point and adjust insufficiently.
Example: “She guessed the population based on the anchor, then under-adjusted.”

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Reference: Tversky & Kahneman