Examining the 'attractiveness halo effect' across cultures

The evidence on the impact of ethnicity on the attractiveness halo effect is inconsistent.

“Therefore, the evidence in this regard is inconsistent and additional research would be needed to shed light on this matter.”

The attractiveness halo effect does generalize when evaluating members of an ethnicity other than their own.

“Therefore, we conclude that the attractiveness halo effect does generalize when evaluating members of an ethnicity other than their own, in alignment with the findings reported in [22].”

The choice of using intelligence, trustworthiness, sociability and happiness as dependent attributes for the halo effect was driven by existing literature.

“The choice of using intelligence, trustworthiness, sociability and happiness as dependent attributes for the halo effect was driven by existing literature on this cognitive bias, such as [4,6,8,9,22,53,60–63].”

We opted to use a 7-point Likert scale because they have been reported to be the most accurate and reliable.

“While some work collected these ratings on a 9-point Likert scale [22], we opted to use a 7-point Likert scale because they have been reported to be the most accurate and reliable [113–115], despite the popularity of 5-point scales.”