The Halo Effect
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The Halo Effect

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

In 1920, Edward Thorndike noticed that military officers who rated their soldiers as intelligent also rated them as physically fit, loyal, and dependable...

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They asked Belgian university students to evaluate a lecturer on film
+They asked American university students to evaluate a lecturer on film
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published an fMRI study in 2008 in Psychological Science (Vol. 19, N
+published an fMRI study in 2008 in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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