Halo effects in marketing applications threaten to make product improvements
difficult by biasing consumer judgments of product attributes. This study applies halo
theory to student evaluations of faculty and finds similar difficulties. Strategies for
individual faculty improvement of ratings are suggested and directions for further
research are noted.
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