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Halo bias

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Halo bias

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- First impressions have a lot to do with the halo effect. When I was a teenager, I had a friend my parents liked because she was polite and got great grades. This meant they didn't worry when we were hanging out together, which meant I could stay out later. And I didn't get a lot of the usual questions a parent would ask about where I was going and what time I'd be home, win-win for everyone. However, I soon learned she shoplifted, she cheated on exams and was into whatever the new illicit trend was at the time. I stopped hanging out with that friend because I realized she wasn't a good influence. My parents, however, couldn't wrap their heads around it. They couldn't believe they were so wrong about her. Even after she was suspended from school they'd still ask whatever happened to that nice friend you had? The halo effect is our tendency to think everything about a person is good because our first impression of them was…

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