Law in the workplace: halo effect

Halo effect means that your initial impression of someone or something will affect your judgment of this person or other aspects of this event.

Halo effect, also known as halo effect, was first developed by the famous American psychologist Edward? Thorndike suggested it. Halo is a fuzzy phenomenon when the moon is shrouded in halo. Edward believes that people's cognition and judgment of things and people often start from the local and then spread to get the whole phenomenon. Just like the halo, these perceptions and judgments are often biased.

If a person is marked as good, he will be shrouded in a positive aura and be endowed with all good qualities; If a person is marked as bad, he is shrouded in a negative aura and is considered to have all kinds of bad qualities.

Psychologist Dane did an experiment like this: first, let the subjects look at some photos of people with different colors and clothes. Then let these subjects evaluate these people from specific aspects. The results show that the subjects endow attractive people with more ideal personality characteristics, such as kindness, calmness and sociability.

In fact, the halo effect is not only manifested in judging people by their appearance, but also in judging people by their clothes, judging people by their appearance, judging people by their appearance, and judging people by their appearance. The halo effect is particularly obvious when evaluating unfamiliar people.

Deep down, we always think that people's qualities are internally related. For example, enthusiastic people are often friendly, humorous, helpful and easy to get along with; And then what? Indifference? Some people are withdrawn, unhappy, unwilling to ask for help and difficult to get along with. So, as long as someone has it? Passion? Or? Indifference? A core feature, we will naturally supplement other related features. In fact, this generalization from the external perception of the heart and from the internal personality characteristics to the evaluation of the appearance is the main reason for the halo effect.

From the cognitive point of view, halo effect is a subjective psychological speculation. As Goethe said:? People see what they know? The error of halo effect lies in:

It is easy to grasp the individual characteristics of things, and is used to pushing individuals to the general, just like a blind person touching an image, replacing the surface with points;

It links some personality or appearance features that have no internal connection, and asserts that having this feature must have another feature;

It affirms all good things and denies all bad things, which is an absolute tendency dominated by subjective prejudice.

Some leaders see some young officers and men's personal shortcomings, or they don't like their living habits and clothes after work, so they will regard them as useless. When you see a person's handwriting is good, you think that his thinking is clear, decisive, serious and organized. In short, this practice of judging each other with colored glasses is caught in the maze of halo effect, so we should overcome and avoid this wrong psychological effect:

Don't attach some psychological characteristics of yourself to the other person: this projection tendency of interpersonal perception is often unconscious. Once you don't pay attention to yourself and often reflect on yourself soberly and rationally, you are likely to have all kinds of prejudices.

Treat the first impression calmly and objectively, and you will be prepared to transform or even deny the first impression: preconceived first impressions will always affect your judgment of future information. Once the first impression is made. Later materials often only play a supplementary and explanatory role.

Don't divide people into different categories according to the expected type: this is a classification, and we often classify the general characteristics of a certain type of people, such as who is the teacher? Gentle? What about businessmen? Mercenary? Wait a minute.

Don't judge people by their appearances: don't be satisfied with their appearances when you know others, but pay attention to the deep structure of their psychology and behavior.

Finally, the halo effect is a very common psychological illusion. When you try to avoid it, you should also make proper use of it to improve your interpersonal relationship. For example, if you are more sincere to others, even if your ability is worse, others will trust you. When applying for a job, we should skillfully use the halo efficiency, fully display our advantages, leave a deep impression on the recruiter and get the appreciation of the other party.

The halo effect tells us that in interpersonal communication, we should pay attention to warning ourselves not to be influenced by others' halo effect and fall into the misunderstanding of halo effect.

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