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    Halo effect

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    Halo effect

    The spillover of one impression onto another channel's measured performance: a TV campaign runs and survey respondents say they heard about you on Instagram, search conversions spike, and the platforms book the credit. Named after the cognitive bias where one positive trait colours the whole judgment.

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    Edward Thorndike, A Constant Error in Psychological Ratings (1920); applied in media measurement practice