Why Do We Think Good-looking People Have Good Hearts?

The ‘Halo Effect’, also known as the ‘Halo Effect’, is about a person. our overall impressionis a type of cognitive bias that also influences how we think about their characters. Our thought towards someone as “She is beautiful” enables us to perceive other characteristics of that person as ‘beautiful’.

in our daily life without noticingLet’s take a closer look at how the ‘Halo Effect’, which constantly affects us, manipulates our judgments.

One of the best examples of the ‘Halo Effect’, celebrities and politicians our impressions of it.

For example, perceiving celebrities as ‘successful, beautiful, attractive’ ‘clever, funny, kind’ We tend to see it as At the same time, we might think that a sympathetic politician is good at economics.

We characterize ‘beautiful’ people as ‘good’ in most areas.

Physical appearance is one of the important components of the ‘Halo Effect’. The people included in the ‘beautiful’ attribute, with other positive features are more likely to qualify.

This effect doesn’t just affect our perceptions of people based on beauty. At the same time, ‘clever, charming or funny’ we can unconsciously encode people as more handsome or beautiful in our minds.

Psychologist Edward Thorndike conducted an interesting experiment on the US military in the 1920s.

The purpose of the experiment is to evaluate one quality in order to evaluate other properties. What effect will it have was to determine.

He asked the commanders in the army to evaluate the various qualities of their soldiers. These qualities ‘intelligence, physical appearance, reliability, leadership’ It included features such as

The ‘Halo Effect’ was real!

Looking at the outcome of the experiment, negative evaluation of a particular attribute other features also led to negative evaluation.

“The correlations were very high,” Thorndike noted. For example, the average correlation of physics with intelligence is 31, that of people with leadership. with good physical appearance correlation was 39.

After Thorndike, different studies were carried out on this subject.

A few studies different from Thorndike’s study show that when we rate people as ‘handsome/beautiful’, positive personality traits supported that we tend to believe that they have

However, not all studies yielded the same results. For example, in some studies, ‘handsome’ people ‘arrogant, manipulative, dishonest’ features such as.

Another experiment was conducted, the results of which would astonish even the participants.

In 1977, a study conducted by Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy DeCamp Wilson at the University of Michigan was used to prove the ‘Halo Effect’ hypothesis. one more experiment done.

In this study, in which students were used as subjects, there were 118 participants, 62 males and 56 females. One of them, featured in a video psychology teacher reviews requested.

The same teacher was harsh to one group and kind to the other group. Which group do you think gave the teacher a higher score?

Participants were randomly assigned to two groups, and both groups were heavy-accented English speaker One of the two interviews given by a Belgian male teacher was watched.

Teacher; he was respectful, flexible and enthusiastic towards the other group, while exhibiting cold, rigid and distrustful attitudes towards one of the groups. After watching the videos, teacher’s attitude, accent and physical appearance They were asked to rate on an 8-point scale.

The students didn’t even know why they rated it like that!

Even the subjects were shocked by the results after the survey results were announced. That’s one of the groups high score They had no idea why.

It was obvious that those who watched the teacher in a more ‘cold, strict, repulsive’ role, including the teacher’s accent. to other qualities they rated low.

It has been proven again and again that the ‘Halo Effect’ really exists against our will.

When the subjects were asked, it was determined that they acted absolutely objectively and whether they acted sympathetically or not. that they are not even aware they said.

The ‘Halo Effect’ the reason why it’s so interesting, The reason is that people can understand this situation but do not realize it when it is happening. Thus, this effect, which Thorndike suggested 50 years ago, was once again proven.