The Planted Price: How the First Number You See Controls What You'll Pay-and the Three-Second Check That Stops It (en Inglés)
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In *The Planted Price*, author Simon Blackwood reveals how the first number you encounter-a listing price, an opening bid, a menu anchor-hijacks every judgment that follows, even when you know to ignore it. Professional appraisers valued the same house thousands of dollars apart based solely on a fabricated number they were told to disregard; emergency-room physicians locked onto triage notes and missed diagnoses; negotiators who named a salary first gained an anchoring advantage their counterparts spent the rest of the conversation trying to escape. This book documents nine real-world domains where anchoring distorts decisions-real estate, medicine, hiring, litigation, retail pricing, auctions, credit limits, charitable giving, and forecasting-and provides the structural overrides that let you judge from evidence before the planted number takes hold. Readers will discover: - How professional appraisers appraised identical properties $30,000-$50,000 apart when shown different listing prices-numbers they explicitly knew were arbitrary - Why emergency physicians anchor on the first diagnosis suggested in handoff notes, and how that mental shortcut produces the diagnostic errors patient-safety researchers have catalogued for decades - The salary-negotiation studies that overturned conventional wisdom: making the first offer isn't a disadvantage-it sets the anchor the other side must work to escape - How restaurants engineer menus with one conspicuously expensive dish that pulls every other price upward without diners recognizing the mechanism - The three-question audit-what was known independently, what number arrived first, what would change if that number disappeared-that builds judgment immune to planted reference points