The Attractiveness Halo: Why Some Candidates are Perceived More Favorably than Others

2010/01/20 by Brad Verhulst, Milton Lodge, Howard Lavine · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attractiveness #Attribution #Competence (human resources) #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Trait

paper · doi:10.1007/s10919-009-0084-z

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