Reducing the Halo Effect by Stimulating Analytic Thinking

Author:

Wen Wen1,Li Jian12ORCID,Georgiou George Kyriacou3,Huang Cheng1,Wang Lu1

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China

2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing, PR China

3. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Abstract

Abstract. The halo effect is one of the most common threats to interpersonal evaluation. In the present study, we examined the role of an alternative approach to reducing the halo effect, namely by stimulating analytic thinking. In Study 1, we established the validity of the current paradigm in inducing the halo effect. In Study 2 and Study 3, we investigated whether the halo effect could be reduced when analytic thinking was activated either with Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices or with a writing task. Results of both studies showed that participants were less biased by the irrelevant central trait when analytic thinking was activated compared to the control group, suggesting that priming analytic thinking ahead of a judgmental task can reduce the halo effect.

Publisher

Hogrefe Publishing Group

Subject

General Psychology,Sociology and Political Science,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Social Psychology

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