Physical attractivness evaluation

RTS halo effect: Palmer and Peterson (2012) tested the attitudes of people towards politicians and found attractive people were rated more politically knowledgeable even when they saw evidence to contradict the judgement. This supports the halo effect as it shows us that if one feature, such as physical attractiveness, of an individual is deemed positive then other features, such as intelligence and honesty, may also be deemed positive, just as the halo effect suggests.  However, this could have major implications for real-life scenarios such as the political process.  Perhaps there are dangers for democracy if politicians are judged as suitable for office merely because they are considered physically attractive by enough voters.

RTS MH: Fiengold (1988) conducted a meta-analysis of 17 studies and found a significant positive correlation between the…