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anchoring in sentencing: a standalone construct

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Legal psychology

judges' sentences being pulled toward arbitrary or irrelevant numbers, such as a prosecutor's demand or a random value.

In legal psychology, anchoring in sentencing refers to judges' sentences being pulled toward arbitrary or irrelevant numbers, such as a prosecutor's demand or a random value. This meaning comes from Englich (2006) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.[1]

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References

Englich, B., Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2006). Playing Dice With Criminal Sentences: The Influence of Irrelevant Anchors on Experts’ Judicial Decision Making. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(2), 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167205282152

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