The Fallacy of the Anchor

<p>A person commits the fallacy of the anchor by holding on to an initial impression or assumption without adapting to the availability of new information. It is a natural human tendency to fall into this fallacy, in which behavior ,judgments, and decisions are influenced by an initial belief, event, impression, or other factor (the anchor) which may be false or irrelevant. The ubiquity of anchoring as a psychological process means that we are often led into error because our understanding of another person, a situation, or necessary decision is anchored to a false idea, assumption, childhood memory, fear, desire, religious belief, or ideological commitment.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@burt_63231/the-fallacy-of-the-anchor-ba4ed72999f7"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>