Sentence examples for mental anchor from inspiring English sources

The stock will go up, but a lot of short-term investors sell because they have a mental anchor on their previous view of the company and don't believe the good news.

The merits of both external and mental anchor points, as estimation strategies were supported.

This evidence from feedback studies (e.g. [ 29, 30]) indicates that children can utilize both external and mental anchor points.

A potential mental partition would be that of halfway, and number 11 was the closest target digit to the mental anchor point of 10.

These most advanced children provided evidence of applying external anchor point strategies for lower and upper bound target digits, as well as the possibility of mental anchor points.

Based on existing speculation (e.g. [ 8, 26]), this is likely to be located in close proximity to external anchor points or, in an advanced circumstance, mental anchor points which require the division of the number line into equal portions.

One crucial cause is mental anchoring.

Mental anchoring describes the bias people have against changing their views when circumstances change.

Another one of my stocks, Omnicom (38, OMC), the advertising company, has suffered from mental anchoring rooted in the conventional wisdom that everything is going digital and thus going to Google and Yahoo, leaving behind traditional advertising firms.

We proposed that imprecise terms used as verbal anchors in rating scales should at least adhere to the following basic requirements: 1. interindividual congruency of mental representations of anchor terms 2. intraindividual stability across time of mental representations of anchor terms 3. distinguishability of adjacent terms These issues were examined for both terms on frequency and intensity.

If we wish to immerse in the current moment, we need some sort of mental foothold, some anchor to the here and now.