Which perceptual distortion occurs when an individual's characteristics are compared with those of others recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristic? a) halo effectb) selective perceptionc) stereotypesd) contrast effectse) self-fulfilling prophecy

Halo effect

Explanation:

Halo effect also called personality physical attractive stereotype. A person becomes biased whatever is beautiful is good.in this distortion people rate a person at their physical attractiveness. The person higher  rated at most beautiful and rate less when seeing less attractive. The halo effect is more used at the level of global impact as the personality of a person or for some specific traits. It is cognitive bias in which we become impressed by a person's whole personality as to how he/she feels or thinks about her/his character. It works on a theme first impression is the last impression.

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