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    "pk": 25825,
    "title": "We Readily Anchor Upon Others, But it is Easier to Anchor on the Self",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Research on social inferences demonstrates that when\nthinking about minds similar to our own, we anchor and\nadjust away from ourselves (Tamir & Mitchell, 2013).\nHowever, research on relational self theory (Andersen &\nChen, 2002) suggests the possibility of using knowledge\nabout others as an anchor when they are more similar to a\ntarget than ourselves. We investigated whether social\ninferences are made on the basis of significant other\nknowledge through an anchor and adjustment process, and\nwhether this ability would be reduced under load. Participants\nanswered questions about their likes and habits, as well as the\nlikes and habits of a significant other, a target similar to their\nsignificant other, and a yoked control. We found that\ndifferences between the significant other and similar target\nwere related to participants’ reaction time, and found the\nopposite effect for self and target differences, suggesting\nanchoring and adjustment from the significant other rather\nthan the self. However, inferences about the others tended to\nbe more similar to the self under load, suggesting that the self\nserves as the primary source of information about others.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "anchoring and adjustment"
        },
        {
            "word": "social cognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "self"
        },
        {
            "word": "mentalizing"
        },
        {
            "word": "cognitive resources"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gn1016t",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "F.X.",
            "last_name": "Willard",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Texas at Austin",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Arthur",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Markman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Texas at Austin",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}