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doi:10.22028/D291-32451
Title: | How and why different forms of expertise moderate anchor precision in price decisions: A pre-registered field experiment |
Author(s): | Frech, Marie-Lena Loschelder, David D. Friese, Malte |
Language: | English |
Title: | Experimental psychology : the new journal for experimental research in psychology |
Volume: | 66 |
Issue: | 2 |
Startpage: | 165 |
Endpage: | 175 |
Publisher/Platform: | Hogrefe & Huber |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Increasing price precision leads to linearly stronger anchoring effects for amateurs, but highly precise anchors can backfire for experts. Previous research focused on experts bargaining about an object within their expertise domain (e.g., real-estate agents negotiated about a house listed at €978,781.63). This leaves unknown whether too much precision backfires for experts because of their (a) general negotiation expertise, (b) domain-specific pricing knowledge, or (c) the combination of general expertise and price-knowledge. Our pre-registered report seeks to replicate the too-much-precision effect and to experimentally separate general negotiation expertise from domain-specific price-knowledge. Seasoned experts (real-estate agents) negotiate about an object either within (house) or outside (motor yacht) their domain of expertise. We measure experts' willingness to pay (WTP), counteroffer, self-ascribed versus other-ascribed competence, and their self-ascribed versus other-ascribed price-knowledge. Based on responses of 400 professional real-estate agents, we replicate the advantageous anchor precision effect and illustrate that too much precision backfires regardless of whether agents negotiate within (house) or outside (yacht) their domain of expertise. Mediation analysis suggests that, consistent with previous research, the impact of precise anchors is due to the competence attributed to the negotiation opponent. Our results offer insights into the psychological mechanisms and theoretical understanding of anchor precision. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1027/1618-3169/a000441 |
URL of the first publication: | https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.1027/1618-3169/a000441 |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29819 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32451 |
ISSN: | 1618-3169 2190-5142 |
Date of registration: | 6-Oct-2020 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Malte Friese |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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