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perception
One positive trait blinds you to every other defect.
A 1920 study found that officers who rated a soldier highly in one category consistently rated them highly in all unrelated categories.
The halo effect occurs when your overall impression of a person influences your feelings about their character in areas you haven't actually observed.
You are rarely judging someone's character, just the glow of their first impression.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Thorndike, 1920
- What the check found
- The claim accurately identifies the origin of the 'halo effect' in Thorndike's 1920 paper, 'A Constant Error in Psychological Ratings', which documented this bias in military officer evaluations.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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