The Halo Effect

Have you ever seen a chief executive officer of a huge cooperation walking in to a business confrontation in shorts and sneakers? Probably not. Throughout m either industries of the world indisputable job positions come with a specific look. Which means the person that holds integrity of these positions is expected to dress and appear in a certain way. multitudes perceptions of others tramp be greatly affected by the rain cloud effect and the bias of attractive people as demonstrated by the article Physical Attractiveness Bias In Hiring What is beautiful erect by Comila Shahani-Denning and the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.The ringing effect in basic terms is attri exactlying many positive qualities because of champion or few bully qualities notice in the person. such as a thin, attractive women may be perceived by other to be neat, well organized, and nice. either the same though she doesnt actually show any evidence of any of those qualities. In the film The Devil Wears Prada, The Runway magazine publishing troupe has set a high standard of presentation for its employees. All of its employee basically fit the same description, size 2, attractive and clothing the modish fashion.Then a average looking young women named Andy walks in wearing an outfit that looked like she stole it from her great grandmother closet to follow through to be the assistants assistant to the head of the come with, the assistant Emily produce judging her the second she enters the office. She obviously doesnt fit in and is cursorily overlooked for the position by the assistant. This is closely related to the ideas in Comila Shahani-Denning article of beauty is good.The beauty is good theory states that attractor has a signifi firet impact on a person macrocosm hired, so the more attractive candidate has a demote destiny in being hired then the less(prenominal) attractive person. Which can be seen as a type of discrimination because you its a non-work related f actor. Attribution in addition plays a huge berth in this situation. Attribution is the way we find inwardness to other peoples actions. There argon two different types of attribution, negative attribution and positive twain of which can come from two different sources, an internal or external motive.By Andy not dressing the part shes sending a put across to other that she just doesnt bid. This is an example of an internal attribution. The fact that its a fashion magazine and she seems to drive in little or cypher about it doesnt really help her. On the other overtake when the main reason the company head Miranda hires her is because she wasnt like the break who didnt work out. One factor of this film that I plant truly interesting was the way Miranda was describeed. Majority of the film, she shown as this cold hearted fanatic everyone fears.Andys perception of her is very negative and this is an example of the reverse halo affect. The reverse halo affect is taking one negative persona and attributing many more without any obvious indications. Just by see how strict Miranda is at work, andy steel her seem like she has no c ar or compassion for anyone else but a good thing they did in the film was show her vulnerable side when she was getting divorce from her husband. She permit her feeling show demonstrating shes not the heartless beast they portray her as. As human being we all try to find meaning and reasoning to everything.That what set us apart from other animal, the need to know why. But what happens when our judgments of other are based on assumptions rather than facts. We begin to form false views of people and even form bosss of people. One stereotype Ive heard many times is that overweight people are unorganized and just messy. Which is hard for me to understand what one has to do with the other, Im nowhere near the 121 lbs Im supposed to be for my age and height but that doesnt mean Im a slob, it just means I like food. How shallo w drop we become that we judge people based on fleshly characteristics.In addition to the beauty is good theory, Comila Shahani-Denning as well explore the far less common beauty is beast theory. Beauty is beast theory basically states that attractive females are considered to feminine for a traditionally male role and are less likely to be hired then a less attractive female. I have seen this my entire life, my mother has continuously been the only female at most her jobs, not because she unattractive but because she normally wears very loose fitting clothes and never wears induce so she give off a rougher look then a women who wears , making her seem suitable for more masculine positions.The Comila Shahani-Denning article also shows a memorise between an individualist culture the United States and an collectivized culture India in order to see if the trend is similar end-to-end different cultures. The students were required to look at an application with a pic attached fo r a job position. The result were similar in both situations, but this may be due to the fact the students were only shown one application when in real life a employer would have a variety of different applicants. So now in that respect working on fixing this flaw in the study and retest the hypothesis.I believe that when the study is repeated we will see a greater bias in hiring in an individualist culture do to the fact that the employee of a precondition company are representative of the company and many people drop cloth for the beauty is good theory. The better the people look the better the company seems. For example if I visit two bakeries, one in which there are overweight women wearing street clothes and another with a thin attractive women wearing a proper uniform. Im more likely to rate the bakery with uniform to be better regardless of the taste of the food.So in a way this also relates to the halo effect, I seen one positive quality and attributed it to be all around better. As weve seen the halo effect and attribution are very closely related. The qualities which we notice in a person can let develop many other ideas about a person, which can make assumptions which can lead us into making wrong decisions based on these assumption for example dating a person just because of their physical attraction, you may find yourself dating a complete airhead or psycho. My situation is when you assume you make an a$$ of yourself.