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Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: Anchoring

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In this video, the cognitive scientist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of anchoring. She shows how arbitrary information sometimes can sometimes act as an anchor that affects our judgments in unexpected ways.

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amos tversky, dan ariely, danny kahneman, estimates, khan academy, khan academy: cognitive biases: anchoring, behavior and mental processes, thinking
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional