Halo effect

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"Take for example, the fact that students rate better-looking professors as teaching better classes. If we have positive feelings toward a given person in one respect, we tend to automatically generalize that positive regard to other traits, an illustration of what is known in psychology as the "halo effect."

  • Marcus, Memory and Belief from Kluge