November 18, 2025Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)

Does a Child’s Opinion Counterweight That of an Adult Expert?

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Reduced anchoring effect observed when contrasting anchors presented consecutively, indicating balancing influences.
Key metric: sequential exposure to anchors from an adult expert and a preschooler alters responses to numerical knowledge questions.
Analysis involved examining the anchoring effect in participants answering general knowledge questions post different anchor exposures.
Findings highlight the psychological processes at work, suggesting that child input can sway expert opinion evaluation.

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Participants exposed to both relevant and irrelevant anchors showed reduced anchoring effects in numerical estimates, suggesting implications for judgment.

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Navarre et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924fef4c0ce034ddc351b95 https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000651

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Implication

Participants exposed to both relevant and irrelevant anchors showed reduced anchoring effects in numerical estimates, suggesting implications for judgment.

Does a Child’s Opinion Counterweight That of an Adult Expert?

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Does a Child’s Opinion Counterweight That of an Adult Expert?

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