Anchoring-and-adjusting perspective taking saves effort but adjustments systematically fall short¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? When perceivers anchor on their own experience to read others, their adjustments systematically fail to go far enough, and they stop adjusting once they reach a plausible conclusion. → Gehlbach 2018

Evidence¶

Gehlbach 2018¶

Gehlbach, H., & Vriesema, C. C. (2018). Meta‐bias: A practical theory of motivated thinking. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-018-9454-6

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

The article reports, citing Epley and Gilovich and Epley et al., that adjustments from a self-anchor are chronically insufficient because perceivers stop at a good-enough conclusion rather than exhaustively searching for the most accurate inference. The article presents this as prior research, not its own study.

"A key characteristic of this process is that these adjustments systematically fail to go far enough (Epley & Gilovich, 2006; Epley et al., 2004)."

Discussion¶

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