4 Discussion
arbitrariness
Past work has documented an undue influence of the first piece of information on the final decision [In this work, we focused on the manifestation of herding effect in peer-review discussions. In future work, it is of interest to understand whether the separate cognitive biases attributed to herding behavior such as anchoring bias [Regarding policy implications, the absence of the effect suggests that the absence of a unified approach towards discussion management does not result in an increased arbitrariness of the resulting decisions. Thus, the question of identifying the source of the spurious agreement between peer reviewers observed in past works [Finally, we urge the reader to be aware of the caveats that we listed in 