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- 14 de Jul, 2019
The Halo Effect doesn't just apply to looks; it applies to any positive quality. We tend to have the intuitive idea in our heads that people can be pegged as objectively "good" or "bad", and that people who are "good" in one aspect must be good in others. For instance; if you're well-groomed, funny, and socially apt, people may overlook the fact that you're unattractive.Due to the Halo Effect, women ascribe personality based on looks. Handsome men are considered to have good personalities, and ugly men have bad personalities. Looks = personality.
If you're going to list off psychological biases to "own" your opponents, I might as well do the same. This is a classic case of the Streetlight Effect:That's why no one in 40+ pages has been able to describe "good personalty" to me other than "you don't have one".
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There are some qualities that are genuinely difficult to quantify and describe. Attractiveness is not one of these qualities - it's easy to tell at a glance - but personality is. It encompasses a broad range of behaviors, and can only really be gleaned once you've been around a person for an extended period of time. You're like a guy who insists the earth is flat and the sun is directly above it, because, well, that's what my eyes are ostensibly telling me. Everyone else must be lying to me, there must some big collective conspiracy to uphold this social fiction, because nobody wants to defund NASA or replace the globes in their house.A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is".
If you want a definition of "personality", this is the best one I can give: personality is behavior indicative of good social adjustment / upbringing. Just as physical attractiveness is a proxy for how good your genes are, personality is a proxy for how good your social upbringing was; how well you can function alongside others, how well you can exist in the same room as others, how long you can go before succumbing to the constant, anxious itch to slink off to your gaming den and dispense more farts into your cum-stained DXRacer. This is important in the context of romantic relationships, because romantic relationships are inherently social. People who are in relationships don't just sit there and admire how hot their SO is. They talk with one another, share thoughts and feelings, give comfort and guidance, make each other laugh. In the long term, it's more like a business partnership than anything else (traditional cultures knew this, I blame Hollywood for convincing people otherwise).