Examination of the relationship between true halo and halo error in performance ratings.

Abstract

This article is based on a master's thesis completed by Andrew L. Solomonson under the direction of Charles E. Lance. We thank Garnett Stokes and Karl Kuhnert for their comments on an earlier version of this article.

Sexual Selection for Moral Virtues

“…Conversely, information that a person is morally virtuous (e.g., honest) boosts ratings of their health and physical attractiveness (Paunonen 2006). Some halo effects may reflect accurate inferences about genuinely correlated traits (true halo), rather than perceiver bias (halo error) (Solomonson and Lance 1997;Jussim 2005). In each case, people conflate moral virtues with personality traits, mental health, intelligence, and physical attractiveness.…”

Do Raters Agree More on Observable Items?

“…Unfortunately, we did not assess participants' overall impression of the ratee and thus could not test this speculation empirically. Nonetheless, the literature describing halo in performance ratings suggests that overall evaluations can influence dimension ratings (e.g., Balzer & Sulsky, 1992;Cooper, 1981;Feldman, 1986;Murphy, Jako, & Anhalt, 1993;Nisbett & Wilson, 1977;Solomonson & Lance, 1997). Feldman made the point that if information regarding a ratee's true behavior is either not salient or absent for another reason, raters use a "default option" based on either an affective response to the ratee or an internal theory (such as a stereotype) when providing ratings.…”

A study examining the relationship between alexithymia and challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability

“…; Murphy et al . ; Solomonson & Lance ). It is possible that carers rated service‐user participants, in this study, more negatively with regard to alexithymia because of their view of that person, in light of their challenging behaviour.…”