A Selection Committee Was Interviewing Applicants for a New Position

question 221

Multiple Choice

A selection committee was interviewing applicants for a new position in the media department of the college.The psychologist on the committee found it very interesting that a majority of the committee believed that the applicant who was a former beauty queen was the most intelligent, likeable, and socially skilled of all the applicants, although two of the other candidates had considerably more education and experience with college publications.The majority of the committee is exhibiting

• A) the fundamental attributional error.
• B) the halo effect.
• C) the social exchange theory.
• D) cognitive dissonance.

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