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

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par 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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