The tendency to draw a negative general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic refers to which of the following ?
Horns effect
The horns effect — option 3. The word negative in the question is what decides it.
The pair. The halo and horns effects are the same error working in opposite directions: one trait is allowed to colour the whole judgement of a person.
| Error | Direction | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Halo effect | Positive — one good trait makes everything look good | An articulate candidate is assumed to be technically able and hard-working as well |
| Horns effect | Negative — one bad trait makes everything look bad | An employee who is once late is thereafter judged careless and uncommitted in every respect |
The other two errors named.
| Error | What it is |
|---|---|
| Selective perception | Seeing only what one expects or wants to see, and filtering out the rest — drawn from one’s own interests, background and experience |
| Stereotyping | Judging a person by the group he belongs to rather than by his own qualities — by age, sex, region, community or institution |
Where these errors do damage. Every one of them distorts the two judgements that matter most in human resource management — the selection interview and the performance appraisal. A single strong or weak answer early in an interview can colour the whole assessment; one visible incident can dominate an entire year’s appraisal.
How organisations guard against them. Structured interviews with the same questions for every candidate; behaviourally anchored rating scales, which describe concrete observable behaviour for each rating point rather than asking for a general impression; rating each dimension separately, and rating all candidates on one dimension before moving to the next; multiple independent raters and 360-degree feedback; and training raters to recognise these very errors.
Two related appraisal errors worth knowing alongside these: the recency effect, where the last few weeks dominate a year’s rating, and central tendency, where a rater marks everyone in the middle to avoid difficulty.
Hence, the answer is Horns effect.
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A.
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I.
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(A)
My Boat Attitude
(I)
Get off, if you do not like it.
(B)
Shared Boat Attitude
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Our Boat Attitude
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(D)
Your Boat Attitude
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