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Halo effect: do attractive people really look less guilty? How the evidence is changing

By Robin Kramer, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Lincoln

You might think attractive people get preferential treatment in life – and research suggests you’d be right. Some psychologists have shown this can even help people get a lighter prison sentence. More recently, however, our own study suggests that this “halo effect” is, in fact, more complicated.

The halo effect is a psychological term describing how an initial good impression of someone positively colours…

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