The Meaning of the Following Sources of Error in Social Perception: Stereotyping, Halo Effect and Attribution Errors

How do we decide what another person is like? Since this is a question of how we attribute personality traits, motives and abilities to other people, the theories around how we do this are known as attribution theory. As human beings we naturally try to sum people up and often due to this give ourselves the wrong picture of somebody. In this essay I am going to try to explain three of these sources of error, stereotyping, halo effect and attribution errors.
Errors in social perception are a common occurrence, one of these errors is known as the halo effect. …