what do psychologists use the term halo effect to describe?
How one distinguishing feature (eg physical attractiveness) tends to have a disproportionate influence on our judgements of a person's otherattributes, eg personality
Why may physical attractiveness also matter?
Because we have preconceived ideas about the personality traits of attractive people, and they are predominantelypostive.
what did Dion find?
that physically attractive people are consistently rated as kind, strong, sociable and successfulcompared to unattractive people
The belief that attractive people will probably have these characteristics makes them EVEN MORE ATTRACTIVE TO US, so we behave +ivelytowrds them- example of a SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY
