How does the halo effect influence politics?
The most relatable content in the reading today for me is the halo effect. Sometimes I find myself justifying the behavior of my friends based on my past observations of them. For example (fiction): Of course Jack would let Joey use his jersey for Mardi Gras. He’s a generous guy. The brain always tries to find the shortest way to make judgments. I learned a lot about split second information processing and judgments in the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. The amount of conclusions that we leap to in a couple of milliseconds is unbelievable. The most fascinating thing in Blink was how an expert on sociology was, with 15 minutes of recorded conversation between a couple, able to predict with 90% accuracy
The most relatable content in the reading today for me is the halo effect. Sometimes I find myself justifying the behavior of my friends based on my past observations of them. For example (fiction): Of course Jack would let Joey use his jersey for Mardi Gras. He’s a generous guy. The brain always tries to find the shortest way to make judgments. I learned a lot about split second information processing and judgments in the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. The amount of conclusions that we leap to in a couple of milliseconds is unbelievable. The most fascinating thing in Blink was how an expert on sociology was, with 15 minutes of recorded conversation between a couple, able to predict with 90% accuracy