Beauty and Judgment – Halo Effect 2-Factor ANOVA Beauty and Judgment – Halo Effect Landy and Sigall (1974). “Beauty is Talent: Task Evaluation as a Function of the Performer’s Physical Attraction,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 29:299-304.
Experiment Description Goal: determine whether people tend to extend evidence of quality from one dimension of people/items to other dimensions (“Halo Effect”) Experimental Set-Up Two Dimensions (Appearance and Essay Quality) Appearance (Picture attached to essay): Attractive, Unattractive, Control (No Picture) Essay Quality: Good, Poor Response: Score assigned to Essay 10 Replicates per treatment combination
Experimental Results Mean (SD)
Statistical Model
Sums of Squares
Analysis of Variance
Bonferroni Post Hoc Comparisons – Additive Model