Discover how anchoring impacts financial decisions and investing. Learn key concepts and examples of this behavioral finance term.

Anchoring bias happens when individuals become too focused on the first piece of information that they receive (the “anchor”) when making decisions, even if the information is irrelevant or outdated.

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Imagine making a crucial decision only to realize later that your choice was heavily influenced by the first piece of information you encountered. This cognitive bias, known as the anchoring effect, ...

The anchoring effect, a psychological bias, demonstrates how the first piece of information encountered significantly influences subsequent decisions. Psychologists Tversky and Kahneman's research ...