Prediction of Anchor Effects On Personalty Items From Rating Dispersions

Buss, A. H. and Durkee, Ann. An Inventory for Assessing Different Kinds of Hostility . Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1957 , 21,343-349.

Edwards, A. L. The Social Desirability Variable in Personality Assessment and Research. New York: Dryden Press, 1957.

Edwards, A. L. and Walsh, J. A. Relationships between Various Psychometric Properties of Personality Items. EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT , 1963, 23, 227-238. (a)

Edwards, A. L. and Walsh, J. A. The Relationship between the Social Desirability Keying of a Scale and the Correlation of the Scale with Edwards' SD Scale and the First Factor Loading of the Scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology , 1963, 19, 200-203. (b)

Heerman, E. F. , Bartlett, C. J. , and Rettig, S. The Application of Anchorage Effects to the Scaling of Occupations. Journal of Social Psychology, 1962, 56, 119-120.

McGarvey, Hulda R. Anchoring Effects in the Absolute Judgment of Verbal Materials. Archives of Psychology , N. Y., 1943, No. 281.

Sherif, M. and Hovland, C. I. Social Judgment: Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Communication and Attitude Change. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.