Your Blind Date Arrived at the Restaurant a Half Hour

question 45

Multiple Choice

Your blind date arrived at the restaurant a half hour late, and you were not impressed by the conversation that followed. Your early appraisal colored your subsequent perceptions of her due to the __________ effect.

• A) horns
• B) halo
• C) stranger
• D) attribution

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