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Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment
BACKGROUND: The anchoring effect refers to the tendency that an individual’s numerical judgment would assimilate to an anchor (a numerical value) that appears before that judgment. This study investigated whether the anchoring effect exists in the emotion judgment of younger and older adults and obs...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01101-w |
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description | BACKGROUND: The anchoring effect refers to the tendency that an individual’s numerical judgment would assimilate to an anchor (a numerical value) that appears before that judgment. This study investigated whether the anchoring effect exists in the emotion judgment of younger and older adults and observed the age-related characteristics. This could not only broaden the explanation of the anchoring effect but also link this classic judgment bias with daily emotion judgment to refresh our understanding of older adults’ ability in emotional perspective taking. METHOD: Participants (older adults: n = 64, age range: 60–74, 27 males; younger adults: n = 68, age range: 18–34, 34 males) read a brief emotional story and compared the protagonist’s emotion intensity to a given numerical anchor (lower or higher than the anchor) and then estimated the protagonist’s possible emotion intensity in that story. The task was divided into two cases according to anchor relevance (anchors are relevant or irrelevant relative to the judgment target). RESULTS: The results showed that the estimates were higher under high-anchor than low-anchor conditions, suggesting the robust anchoring effect. Further, the anchoring effect was greater for anchor-relevant than anchor-irrelevant tasks and for negative rather than positive emotions. No age differences were found. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The results indicated that the anchoring effect is robust and stable for younger and older adults, even though the anchor information seemed irrelevant. Finally, perceiving others’ negative emotions is a crucial but rather difficult aspect of empathy, which could be a challenge and requires more caution for accurate interpretation. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-023-01101-w. |
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spelling | pubmed-101867462023-05-17 Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment Jin, Menghan Peng, Huamao Wang, Dahua BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: The anchoring effect refers to the tendency that an individual’s numerical judgment would assimilate to an anchor (a numerical value) that appears before that judgment. This study investigated whether the anchoring effect exists in the emotion judgment of younger and older adults and observed the age-related characteristics. This could not only broaden the explanation of the anchoring effect but also link this classic judgment bias with daily emotion judgment to refresh our understanding of older adults’ ability in emotional perspective taking. METHOD: Participants (older adults: n = 64, age range: 60–74, 27 males; younger adults: n = 68, age range: 18–34, 34 males) read a brief emotional story and compared the protagonist’s emotion intensity to a given numerical anchor (lower or higher than the anchor) and then estimated the protagonist’s possible emotion intensity in that story. The task was divided into two cases according to anchor relevance (anchors are relevant or irrelevant relative to the judgment target). RESULTS: The results showed that the estimates were higher under high-anchor than low-anchor conditions, suggesting the robust anchoring effect. Further, the anchoring effect was greater for anchor-relevant than anchor-irrelevant tasks and for negative rather than positive emotions. No age differences were found. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The results indicated that the anchoring effect is robust and stable for younger and older adults, even though the anchor information seemed irrelevant. Finally, perceiving others’ negative emotions is a crucial but rather difficult aspect of empathy, which could be a challenge and requires more caution for accurate interpretation. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-023-01101-w. BioMed Central 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10186746/ /pubmed/37189205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01101-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Jin, Menghan Peng, Huamao Wang, Dahua Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title | Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title_full | Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title_fullStr | Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title_full_unstemmed | Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title_short | Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
title_sort | age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01101-w |
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