When one positive thing is known or believed about a target person, we tend to infer that the individual is positive overall and thus has other positive features. This is termed:

a. the halo effect.
b. what is beautiful is good effect.
c. spontaneous trait inference.
d. the actor-observer effect.


Answer: A

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