
In her article, The Beauty Advantage, columnist Jessica Bennett cites the following facts: Essentially, your overall impression of a person impacts your evaluations of that person’s specific traits.

The halo effect is a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person influences how we feel and think about his or her character. First impressions were established as more important than subsequent impressions in forming an overall impression of someone.


In 1946, Polish-born psychologist Solomon Asch found that the way in which individuals form impressions of one another involved a primacy effect, derived from early or initial information.
