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02/07/2025

The Halo 😇 & the
Horn 😈Effect.

🌟 1. The Halo Effect 😇

Definition:
The Halo Effect is a type of cognitive bias where we let one positive trait of a person influence our overall perception of them—even in unrelated areas.
Example:
If someone is physically attractive, we might also assume they’re kind, intelligent, or competent, even if we have no evidence for those traits.
In school: a teacher might assume a neat, well-dressed student is also smart and hardworking.
In job interviews: if someone speaks confidently, the interviewer might assume they’re more capable overall.
Psychological Reasoning:
The brain likes shortcuts. If something about a person stands out positively, our mind wants to keep things consistent—so we “fill in the blanks” and project more good qualities onto them.
Nisbett & Wilson (1977)

Study Title: Evidence for Unconscious Alteration of Judgments.
What happened:
Researchers showed two groups of participants a video of the same professor giving a lecture.
BUT—the professor acted warm and friendly in one version, and cold and distant in the other. After watching, participants were asked to rate the professor on various traits: physical appearance, mannerisms, and even accent.
Results:
Those who saw the warm version rated him as more attractive, more likeable, and with a pleasant accent.
Those who saw the cold version rated him as less attractive, irritating, and even with a less pleasant voice—even though his physical traits never changed!
Takeaway:
A single positive or negative trait (like warmth) distorted their overall perception of unrelated traits. That’s the Halo Effect in action.

2. The Horn Effect 😈–
Landy & Sigall (1974)

Study Title:
Beauty is talent:
Task evaluation as a function of the performer’s physical attractiveness What happened:
Male participants were shown essays supposedly written by female authors.
The researchers attached a photo of the “author” to each essay—either an attractive woman, an unattractive woman, or no photo at all.
The content of the essay was the same in all cases.
Results:
Essays paired with an attractive author were rated significantly higher in quality.
Essays with an unattractive author were rated lower—even though the words were identical. No-photo essays fell somewhere in the middle.
Takeaway:
One negative trait (lack of physical attractiveness, in this case) led to lower evaluations of unrelated abilities—a clear case of the Horn Effect.

Why This Matters: 🧠
These studies prove that:
Our brains make snap judgments about people based on very little information.
Biases sneak in without us realizing it, especially in decisions like hiring, teaching, and relationships.
Being aware of these biases helps us slow down and evaluate people more fairly.

02/06/2025

“Not Why are you taking Co***ne!!
But why are you in so much pain that
You need to self~medicate with this or Any substance or behaviour ??
There is always an unhealed
pain, but Co***ne or any substance
or behaviour will maybe temporarily ease your pain but will ultimately cause much more Pain.

What happened to you?

Where is your pain?

That is the question we should
be asking?”

02/06/2025

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31/05/2025

Hiya ~ So this is the best way I’ve ever heard explaining what it can be like for people who live with this condition. People often think they’re just lazy or just self-centred. This isn’t the case, Neurotransmitters are not firing in unison. (Dopamine and Norepinephrine)Norepinephrine is synthesized from dopamine. Since the two go hand-in-hand, experts believe that lower levels of dopamine and norepinephrine are both linked to ADHD.An ADHD brain differs from a neurotypical one in many ways—from the size and activity levels of certain regions to the chemical signals traveling throughout the brain.Because of these differences, you may find it challenging to organize, plan, focus, and manage your emotions with ADHD.ADHD Is real and it’s also not a life sentence, once diagnosed but left undiagnosed and untreated can absolutely be not healthy for anyone but especially as you enter adulthood, because ADHD can lead to anxiety/depression disorders, food disorders, addictions of any kind, dyslexia, ASD. So if suspect you have ADHD symptoms and these symptoms are interfering with your life please contact someone who can help and guide you along the process, ADHD Ireland run fantastic free online groups for children, adults, partners and parents of people with ADHD, education around ADHD is crucial with learning how to live a fantastic healthy life and have ADHD.

31/05/2025

21/05/2025

“Darkness cannot exist without
there being Light and Light cannot
exist without Darkness, to know
one’s Darkness is to truly discover
one’s Light side and Authentic self.”

~Carl G. Jung.

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential ...

20/05/2025

16/05/2025

Hi 👋
Addiction isn’t caused by a lack of willpower. It’s deeply intertwined with emotional dysregulation, trauma history, and the brain’s attempts to self-soothe.
A 2014 study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that individuals with early trauma histories had higher activity in the amygdala and lower connectivity with the prefrontal cortex-making emotional regulation harder and impulsive behaviors
(like substance use) more likely.
The ACE~
(Adverse Childhood Experience)
Study (Felitti et al., 1998)
showed that individuals with 4+ adverse childhood experiences were:- 
2x more likely to become smokers- 
5x more likely to become alcoholics- 
10x more likely to inject drugs In other words~
The more unresolved pain you
carry, the more relief addiction promises. Don’t Ask~

“Why the Addiction?”

Instead,Ask?- 

“What pain was too much to feel?”- ”

What part of themselves did they have to escape from?”- 

“What was missing when comfort was needed most?
“In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Maté writes:
“The question is never
‘Why the addiction?’
but ‘Why the pain?’
And the answer is always found
not in the addiction,
but in the childhood.”
What This Means for Parenting, Relationships,
and Self-Compassion- 
If we only treat behaviour,
we miss the emotional wound underneath.~
If we only shame the addiction, we silence the story that gave rise to it.
The real work is in helping people feel safe enough to face the feelings they once had to numb.

Addiction isn’t a choice!!!!!!!!

It’s a strategy.
One that once worked~
until it didn’t.

And healing begins the moment someone stops asking, “What’s wrong with you?” and starts asking, “What happened to you?”

~Gabor Maté.