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      • The halo effect is a cognitive bias that significantly impacts how individuals perceive and evaluate others. Coined by Edward Thorndike in 1920, the term originally described the phenomenon in which individuals make holistic judgments about another person based on a single trait or characteristic.
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  2. The halo effect refers to one possible impact of a positive label being applied to pupils by teachers. If a pupil has been labelled positively, perhaps as an ideal pupil then their behaviour will be interpreted differently than the same behaviour might be for a different pupil.

  3. easysociology.com › general-sociology › the-halo-effectThe Halo Effect - Easy Sociology

    May 31, 2024 · The halo effect is a cognitive bias that significantly impacts how individuals perceive and evaluate others. Coined by Edward Thorndike in 1920, the term originally described the phenomenon in which individuals make holistic judgments about another person based on a single trait or characteristic.

  4. Dec 27, 2008 · The halo effect is when a pupil is stereotyped from first impressions as being good/bad or thick/bright. These impressions can shape future pupil teacher relations. Sociologists like Hargreaves found teachers initially evaluate pupils on a whole raft of non academic factors which label a student in a particular way.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Halo_effectHalo effect - Wikipedia

    The halo effect is a perception distortion (or cognitive bias) that affects the way people interpret the information about someone with whom they have formed a positive gestalt. [11] An example of the halo effect is when a person finds out someone they have formed a positive gestalt with has cheated on their taxes.

  6. Oct 17, 2024 · Halo effect, error in reasoning in which an impression formed from a single trait or characteristic is allowed to influence multiple judgments or ratings of unrelated factors. Research on the phenomenon of the halo effect was pioneered by American psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, who in 1920.

  7. The halo effect theory, initially described by Edward Thorndike (1920), can be understood within the framework of cognitive psychology. Specifically, the halo effect is often attributed to a cognitive bias known as the "generalization bias."

  8. Aug 30, 1976 · The halo effect is generally defined as the influence of a global evaluation on evalua-tions of individual attributes of a person, but this definition is imprecise with respect to the strength and character of the influence. At one extreme, the halo effect might be due simply to an extrapolation from a general impression to unknown attributes.

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