Thaler and Sunstein (2008)found That Student's Estimations of the Year

question 21

Multiple Choice

Thaler and Sunstein (2008) found that student's estimations of the year Attila the Hun sacked Europe was influenced by the unrelated request to add 200 to part of their phone number.This study best illustrates the effect of which heuristic?

• A) The framing heuristic
• B) The anchoring and adjustment heuristic
• C) The availability heuristic
• D) The representativeness heuristic

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