Halo effect

The general topic the class experiment was how attractiveness affected the sentence length of a crime. This is important since it directly affects the lives of defendants in court room situations. Judges should be aware of this potential bias as they are deciding ruling. Sigall and Ostrove, conducted a study focusing on the same topic. The independent variable was the level of attractiveness with the crime committed. The dependent variable was how long the sentence was that the participant…

The Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George serves the same function of being a devotional piece to the Virgin Mary as the Rottgen Pieta. The Rottgen Pieta dates circa 1300 and was created by painted wood. The Virgin Mary is depicted in complete opposite ways in each of the artworks. In the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George, the artist shows the Virgin Mary as a strong, imperial mother by draping her in a dark and bold purple robe. The artist also utilizes hierarchy…

Contrast effects are evaluations of peoples’ characteristics that are affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered that rank higher or lower of the same characteristics. An example is a soccer player who came for the selection first will get to be…

Many studies have found that physical attractiveness affects the attributions people make about others (and vice versa). This tendency provides a specific example of what psychologists refer to more generally as the halo effect. The halo effect is a cognitive bias in which the perception that an individual possess one positive characteristic makes us more likely to believe that he or she also posses other (even unrelated) positive characteristics. “Specifically, when it comes…

As discussed in the Kahn Academy video, this piece was bout divine beauty and depicting Venus in a non-religious sense. The way she is balanced on the seashell looks like she should not be standing as sturdy as she is; as if she is floating. This effects adds to the gracefulness of her presence. The figure on the right is wearing garments that have beautiful decorative patterns on it, adding to the beauty of this…

The effect of viewing attractive people as better is referred to in this study as the halo effect. The authors examined how essays were graded when the papers were accompanied with what was said to be the author’s photograph. In reality, the photos used were either of an attractive woman or an unattractive…

For instance the game Halo can boost visual skills and decision making, yet it also promotes aggressive behaviour. But the effects of gaming and exposure to technology are usually seen as negative by many theorists, for instances Greenfield (2012) noted that Twitter users are unable to develop meaningful connections in the present…

the audience knows that he is bleeding, also to frighten the audience and to create more drama and intensity to the scene. High contrast lighting is used on the gold ark with a halo effect on it. The ark is the color gold to show that this is something unique and important to the characters in the movie, there is a halo effect to add the sort of godly and powerful sense to the object. The movie is mostly done in low key lighting. Low key lighting is utilized because it gives a more serious tone…

trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first victims in the mid 14th century. The Bubonic Plague was so devastating to the European Society because it set back the society by hundreds of years economically, had a horrific psychological effect, and also changed their view on religion and God. The Bubonic…

primarily on building an organization’s image and reputation. In responding to if a corporate advertising program for JetBlue would be recommended, you concluded that a corporate advertising program would be beneficial. Specifically, you note the effect corporate advertising has on public opinion during a crisis as well as the importance of post-crisis communication strategies to lessen negative stakeholder reactions that could possibly harm the reputation of the organization. An additional use…