Mental models/Anchoring
Perception & Visual Processing

Anchoring

The cognitive bias where people rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered (the anchor) when making decisions.

In plain language

The first number or piece of information encountered disproportionately influences all subsequent judgements.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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