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Prediction of Rater Differences in the Quality of Halo Effect
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Scale Construction and Halo Effect in Secondary Student Ratings of Teacher Performance
… of decisions based on ratings referred to as halo effect. Using a variety of approaches to operationally define and estimate halo error, the extent to which male and female students exhibit differing degrees of halo in their ratings of teachers was examined. The results of the study revealed …
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The Negative Halo Effect of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors on Teacher Ratings of ADHD: Impact of Child Gender
… It was hypothesized that ODD behaviors exerted a halo effect on ADHD ratings.</p> <p>The present study replicated and extended Abikoff et. al's study with new tapes including female actresses, hypothesizing that bias existed with the male, but not the female tapes. Following the procedures of …
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A Book and its Cover: The effects of dynamic and static facial expressions on the perction of personality traits
… and stereotype activation, specifically the Halo Effect, in older adults (55-85 years). To that end, two hypotheses emerged: 1) older adults will be more accurate in identifying facial expressions when viewing dynamic facial expressions than static facial expressions, and 2) participants …
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The influence of personality type, social comparison information, and different rating settings on the accuracy and leniency of self-ratings
… self-ratings are less likely to produce a halo effect when compared to other performance appraisal measures. Further, it has been suggested that the inclusion of self-ratings may decrease an employee's defensiveness in the appraisal system. The current study investigated boundary conditions …
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Which creates the bigger halo: cause-related marketing or cause-sponsorship?
… This study tests the benefits of a positive halo effect from CSR campaigns and explores the role of involvement in the relationship. A halo effect can be described as a cognitive bias in which one trait can positively affect the subsequent perceptions of a brand (Madden et al., 2012), and …
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Strategic analysis of Samsung's smartphone product portfolio : countering the challenge from Chinese competitors
… strategy of utilizing economies of scale and the halo effect from flagship models was not effective to compete against the price competitiveness of Chinese. Since the dynamic aspects of competition and the importance of platform are increasing, Samsung needs to build a new sustainable portfolio …
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Beautiful People Are Better, at Least Online: Associations Between Photo Attractiveness and Text Attractiveness in Women's Online Dating Profiles
… Brand and colleagues (2012). Good Genes Theory, Halo Effect, Physical Attractiveness Stereotype, and Social Information Procession theory were also used to explore what function appearance truly plays in online dating and how it influences a user's written text.</p> <p>83 men were surveyed and …
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Breaking the Muscular Mold: The Application of Homophily, Credibility, and Physical Attractiveness within Attitude and Perceived Behavioral Control towards Weight Lifting
… by drawing on research investigating the 'halo effect,' which posits that physically attractive people are more likely to be hired, get a raise, perceived positively, and/or live happily within certain professions. Extant work has shown this trend is not generalizable across all fields. For …
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Disentangling fluency, comprehensibility and coherence: Toward a better understanding of oral proficiency profiles
… results suggest that disfluency may be a valid halo instead of a distractor: removing disfluency markers does not always lead to gain in fluency, comprehensibility or coherence scores; component correlations among fluency, coherence and comprehensibility are generally substantial while …
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Diffraction phase microscopy for applications in materials science
… object-dependent artifacts, like the well-known halo effect, that are not present in their laser counterparts. Recently, we have shown that such artifacts are due to a high-pass filtering phenomenon caused by a lack of spatial coherence. This realization allowed us to quantitatively model the …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… bias, I propose two cognitive biases (halo effect and cognitive fluency effect) and suggest halo effect is the major source of bias. To correct the attenuation bias caused by measurement error, I develop a new way to improve the small sample performance of traditional instrumental …
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Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults
… attractive. It is also known that, through the halo effect, attractive people are perceived to possess positive personality traits. The present study aimed to determine if skin color is associated with long-term mate preference among U.S.-based Desi adults as it is among Desi in South Asia, and …
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The Effect of Race in Therapy
<p>The present research investigated the effect of race in therapy by examining the activation and application of the African American stereotype in two separate studies. In Study 1, 46 graduate students in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, or social work watched a video of a therapy …
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Children’s Social Judgments of Others on the Basis of Dialect-Specific Vocabulary
… not helpfulness. This evidence suggests that a halo effect may motivate preference for familiar dialects. </p>
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Three Essays on the Marketing of Innovations
… that the perceived aesthetic value creates a halo effect in the post-adoption phase, such that the influence of early adopters’ experienced utility on attitude gets weaker, the more positively they evaluate the innovations’ aesthetics over time. Furthermore, the halo effect only tempers the …
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An Examination of Organizatinal Performance Measurement System Utilization
… measures. In addition, there is evidence of a halo effect in that an organization's performance on financial measures appears to influence an individual's perception of the organization's performance on nonfinancial measures. The third study uses structural equation modeling and other related …
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Examiner Bias and Intelligence Test Scoring : a Study of the Effect of Speech-Handicapped Responses on the Scoring of the WISC-R Comprehension Subtest
… tests. Examiner bias and the expectancy effect is largely ignored. An unexplored variable in the research is an examinee's speech handicap and the effect it may produce in the scoring of an intelligence test.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Identical responses to the Comprehension subtest of the …
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Effects of Font Design on Highway Sign Legibility
… to be more difficult to read, due to the light "halo" effect caused around the letters, or halation. Recently, more studies have been conducted to improve the overall legibility of Highway Gothic. One study found that its legibility could greatly improve if it's size was increased by 20%. This, …
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An Analysis of the Leader Behaviors of Career-Bound and Place-Bound Public School Superintendents in Iowa
… leader behaviors, especially Structure. This effect is accentuated by place-boundedness. 5) Age at first superintendency has no appreciable relationship to leader behavior scores. 6) Frequency of occurrence of place-boundedness is directly related to school district size. 7) The high school …
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