Toward a theory of own‐anchoring in judgments of other people's external characteristics

The own-anchor effect concerns the assimilation of judgments other people's external characteristics such as age, weight, and height toward estimator's own characteristics. phenomenon is related to theories social projection classical anchoring. It has previously been described an estimation bias in studies eyewitness accuracy measured by correlation between estimates participants' corresponding We suggest that term should be reserved for cases when estimate value both are bigger than target person's value, or smaller value. Two subtypes own-anchoring their association different persons ages sizes also described. A new index based on deviation persons' values introduced, differences two measures discussed, well implications moderation gender.