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Imagine walking into a used car dealership, where a car that you are interested in is priced at $800. Being a savvy consumer, you manage to haggle the price down to a more palatable $700 and happily drive off with your new car. If the same car was priced at $1600, however, you would happily shake hands at $1300, well above the price that you did not find acceptable in the first scenario.
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Kosmidis, M. (2021). Anchoring Bias. In: Raz, M., Pouryahya, P. (eds) Decision Making in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0143-9_4
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