Talk:Anchoring

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I think that the article itself is not really about the contemporary meaning of anchoring in NLP, like explained, for example, here: http://www.deep-trance.com/skill-model/anchoring.html. Unfortunately, I lack the necessary English skills to edit it properly, so if you're reading this, please cover the modern meaning. Thanks in advance.

[edit] 'anchoring': don't confuse different uses

The kind of anchoring you (and the given url) are refering to is of a completely different type and meaning. 'Anchoring', within a cognitive psychology paradigm, refers to a specific type of cognitive bias and in no way has anything to do with NLP/deep trance meditation, etc. If you or anyone else is interested in the meaning of "anchoring" supplied in the url you listed, please make a seperate entry, i.e. an entry that does not place it (directly or indirectly) within the context of cognitive psychology proper.

Both meanings have to do with the functioning of the human mind. They could reasonably be presented in the same article, which would begin with something like "Anchoring is a term used in different senses in cognitive psychology and in neuro-linguistic programming." Then there could be a heading for each meaning. If we develop a huge amount of additional material on either or both, we could make Anchoring a disambiguation page, but we're pretty far from that stage right now.

I'd like to know more about the NLP sense. I hope that someone knowledgeable about NLP will write something. Even a sentence would be useful, though of course a couple of paragraphs would be even better. JamesMLane 07:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

A new article Anchor (NLP) has been set up for the NLP meaning of the term FT2 18:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)