• 9bananas@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    to save some folks a click:

    the phenomenon is called the “halo effect”, and the opposite is also the case and called the “horns effect” (ugly people/things getting more negative judgement based on appearance).

    there’s a LOT of research into these effects (for obvious reasons)…