Editing Anchoring effect (section)

===Durability of anchoring===
Anchoring effects are also shown to remain adequately present given the accessibility of knowledge pertaining to the target. This, in turn, suggests that despite a delay in judgement towards a target, the extent of anchoring effects have seen to remain unmitigated within a given time period. A series of three experiments were conducted to test the longevity of anchoring effects. It was observed that despite a delay of one week being introduced for half the sample population of each experiment, similar results of immediate judgement and delayed judgement of the target were achieved.  The experiments concluded that external information experienced within the delayed judgement period shows little influence relative to self-generated anchors even with commonly encountered targets (temperature) used in one of the experiments, showing that anchoring effects may precede [[priming (psychology)|priming]] in duration especially when the anchoring effects were formed during the task.<ref name="Mussweiler Durability">{{cite journal |last1=Mussweiler |first1=Thomas |title=The durability of anchoring effects |journal=European Journal of Social Psychology |date=July 2001 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=431–442 |doi=10.1002/ejsp.52}}</ref> Further research to conclude an effect that is effectively retained over a substantial period of time has proven inconsistent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=Martin F. |title=Belief Persistence after Evidential Discrediting: The Impact of Generated versus Provided Explanations on the Likelihood of Discredited Outcomes |journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |date=November 1997 |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=561–578 |doi=10.1006/jesp.1997.1336}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mussweiler |first1=Thomas |last2=Neumann |first2=Roland |title=Sources of Mental Contamination: Comparing the Effects of Self-Generated versus Externally Provided Primes |journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |date=March 2000 |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=194–206 |doi=10.1006/jesp.1999.1415}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mussweiler |first1=Thomas |last2=Strack |first2=Fritz |title=Hypothesis-Consistent Testing and Semantic Priming in the Anchoring Paradigm: A Selective Accessibility Model |journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |date=1 March 1999 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=136–164 |doi=10.1006/jesp.1998.1364}}</ref>