Age similarities in the anchoring effect in emotion intensity judgment

Table 1 Description of the demographic variables of younger and older adults

	High-anchor group (n = 64)				Low-anchor group (n = 66)				Effect of anchor			Effect of age
	Old (n = 31)		Young (n = 33)		Old (n = 31)		Young (n = 34)		F (df)	p	η_p²	F (df)	p	η_p²
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F (df)	p	η_p²	F (df)	p	η_p²
Age	64.60	3.78	22.08	3.20	64.80	4.13	22.48	2.34	0.34(1,120)	0.564	0.003	4930.23(1,120)	0.000***	0.976
Education	11.40	2.69	15.92	1.87	10.12	2.49	16.59	1.30	0.04(1,120)	0.836	0	168.62(1,120)	0.000***	0.584
Health	3.73	0.52	3.56	0.58	3.84	0.69	4.07	0.59	7.46(1,120)	0.007**	0.059	0.14(1,120)	0.712	0.001
Processing speed	24.32	5.91	43.09	7.12	21.27	7.10	41.06	6.03	4.19(1,120)	0.043*	0.034	258.76(1,120)	0.000***	0.683
Working memory	5.23	1.63	7.13	1.70	4.27	1.20	7.29	1.72	2.26(1,120)	0.135	0.018	71.95(1,120)	0.000***	0.375
Empathy	57.42	8.30	57.19	8.64	56.67	8.75	56.91	9.39	0.02(1,120)	0.881	0	0.10(1,120)	0.751	0.001

Note. The ANOVA results are shown in the columns on the right: “Effect of anchor” represents the related statistic from the main effect of the anchor group, and “Effect of age” represents the related statistic from the main effect of the age group. The significance of the main effect of the anchor group and age group: *, **, and *** indicate p < .05, p < .01, and p < .001, respectively. Self-rated health condition (Health) is rated on a five-point scale (1 = very poor; 2 = poor; 3 = average; 4 = good; and 5 = very good)

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