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AveGali [126]
4 years ago
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A group of thieves has been convicted of stealing luxury items from a local shopping center. The usual sentence is jail time ran

ging from 3 to 10 years. Mary, the district attorney hopes for a lengthy punishment in order to send a message to other would-be thieves. She asks the judge to consider a 10 year sentence, even though the punishment is usually shorter. She is taking advantage of ______________ to try to increase the punishment length.
Social Studies
1 answer:
sineoko [7]4 years ago
4 0

Answer:Enchoring effect

Explanation:The anchoring effect is a cognitive bias in which we tend to depend on the first offered information as an anchor to make. This anchor first Information is what we will use as a reference to make subsequent decisions or judgements.

Mary is counting on that fact , that people will hear about a person who got a 10 year sentence and will use that information as an anchor to make judgements about their own criminal actions.

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