Bayes Factors show evidence against systematic relationships between the anchoring effect and the Big Five personality traits.

ABSTRACT: Examining personality traits as predictors of human behaviour is of high interest. There are several but inconclusive reported relationships of personality and the susceptibility to the "anchoring effect", a tendency to adjust estimates towards a given anchor. To provide an answer to variably reported links between personality traits and the anchoring effect, we collected data from 1000 participants in the lab and validated typical anchoring effects and representative personality scores of the sample. Using Bayesian statistical data analyses, we found evidence for the absence of a relationship between anchoring effects and personality scores. We, therefore, conclude that there are no specific personality traits that relate to a higher susceptibility to the anchoring effect. The lack of a r

SUBMITTER: Schindler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007589 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature