Halo Effect

Examples

• Attractive people are often automatically assumed to be more intelligent, competent, and moral than average-looking people, despite no actual correlation between these traits.
• An employee who excels in one visible area (like sales) is often assumed to be strong across all performance dimensions (like teamwork or organization), even without evidence.
• A restaurant with excellent ambiance and décor is often assumed to have better food quality and service, even before tasting the food.

All cognitive biases

• Confirmation Bias
• Availability Heuristic
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Anchoring Bias
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Negativity Bias
• Hindsight Bias
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• In-Group Bias
• Optimism Bias
• Framing Effect
• Self-Serving Bias
• Halo Effect
• Recency Bias
• Survivorship Bias
• Implicit Bias