User talk:Isaacmoore311/sandbox

Contribution to Wikipedia Ideally, I would like to take the page on Halo Effect and edit it in such a way as to be more concise. As psychology is my major and “the halo effect” is a psychological effect, this topic jumped out at me in terms of something I was familiar and interested in enough to feel comfortable in contributing to Wikipedia. In the Talk page there are a lot of requests for some major editing. Many requests for clarification and to eliminate confusing ideas. One anonymous editor speaks to the “the reverse halo effect not devil effect”, while I have not seen either of these as more than implied in from marketing, the horn effect has been studied, and I believe that is a better source for a psychological principle.

Simply looking at the halo effect page, the lead in is just hard to read, with little flow, and rough grammar. From the outline it looks as though most of the information is related to attractiveness, though reading through the subtopics, attractiveness is not the key point. Going from subtopic to subtopic, it looks like contributors have one or two examples they feel demonstrate the halo effect and simply tack that onto the list of research that show a halo effect. I would like to rewrite the lead into the halo effect and reorganize the entire page to be more concise.

Finding Your Article Of the available articles that were presented, the one that grab my attention the most was the article on the "Halo Effect". I am familiar with the cognitive bias from previous cognitive psychology courses, also I'm a psychology major. I will likely reference Daniel Kahneman heavily, specifically Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman is a renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and I find his explanation for working memory and attention as two systems to be accessible to the general population. I am thinking that I will expand on the cognitive bias section of the "Halo Effect" article. Halo Effect is rated as a start page so there should be plenty of room for expansion on the topic.

From the library search for articles (peer reviewed and full articles checked) -

http://libproxy.boisestate.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&bquery=Halo+Effect&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=RV&clv1=Y&type=1&site=ehost-live

From the Google Scholar search -

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C13&q=halo+effect&btnG=

Additional references -

Kahneman, Daniel. 2015. Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Rosenzweig, Philip M. 2014. The halo effect-- and the eight other business delusions that deceive managers. New York: Free Press.

Article Evaluation In the article female body shape... I noticed that there were a lot of references and comparisons to the male body shape. I believe this was distracting to the subject of the article, though people tend to need comparisons to better understand the material. The Social Experiments section of the article seems to me, out of place, especially the experiment that was conducted by Kilgore; while it was accepted by Wikipedia editors, if this was a research paper I would call it filler. There were a lot of claims throughout the article that needed a citation, which isn't very promising, and would lead me to question the article. I did look through some of the citations, in the section about waist to hip ratios there was a marker for a better citation. The only citation was from a Beach Body advertisement page; the statement also looks like a close paraphrasing. I did a little digging and added a citation from reputable psychologist and professor's website, that mentions Marilyn Monroe's W-H ratio at .7. Also from what I have found Sophia Loren had a W-H ratio of .6, and the Venus de Milo statue doesn't have any official measurements, unofficial measurements range from W-H of .68 to .8. I did not edit the sentence, though I did mention it in the talk section of the article. Much of the Talk that I read was seemed opinionated, "the page is sexist", "paintings vs photographs", "crotch point"... I found the discussion on why request to move the page was declined to be informative. This article is part of the anatomy, anthropology, sexuality, and LGBT studies (even though it was pointed out in the Talk section that it has no mention of trans-body shapes) WikiProjects. All projects gave the article a C rating, mid importance.

"Sophia Loren | Body Measurements". www.bodymeasurements.org. Retrieved 2018-01-28. "100 Years Ago, American Women Competed in Intense Venus de Milo Lookalike Contests". Atlas Obscura. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2018-01-28.