making a decision, the anchor acts price, the buyer thinks they are both as an unconscious priming getting a better deal and value. effect and as a starting value to Also, when people are asked: make adjustments from until Was Ghandi more or less than reaching a final value. 144 years old when he died? And then asked to estimate his age when he died, their estimates are higher because of the high number of 144 years used in the anchoring question.20 Availability The availability heuristic is a mental After hearing about a plane crash Heuristic shortcut that occurs when people in the news, people estimate that make judgments about the the likelihood of plane crashes is probability of events based on how greater than it actually is.21 easy it is to think of examples, especially if these examples are personal experiences. A single example is considered representative of the whole rather than as just an anecdotal example in a range of data. Default Effects Opting into the choice, Organ donation rates are higher “standard” the conventional decision that is in countries with an automatic chosen more. Often, the default is policy than with an “opt-in” the option that requires less or automatic policy,” “opt-out
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