Anchoring to a Diagnosis?—Reply

Ly and Song respond to comments on their article by Aberegg and Graham. They state that the agree with Aberegg and Graham that earlier studies of anchoring bias focused on a numerical anchor. They also agree that experiments in a controlled setting would be useful in assessing the hypothesized phenomenon of anchoring to a categorical diagnosis. However, in the absence of these experiments, they believe that their study is among the first to provide empirical support for this phenomenon in a clinical setting.