Petitions

I received an email from the BMA to sign an online petition to the government for movement on the SAS contract. I signed the petition – despite Cialdini’s observation that petitions act only on the petitioner creating an activist, defining self, rather than the petitioned.

 

I wonder: does knowing this mitigate the effect? I expect it does to some small extent. Such adjustments are never complete (cf. anchoring bias).