Halo vs. Horns

Most people that I have talked to about a certain teacher told me that he/she was not nice at all. After hearing multiple horror stories that happened in their class room and all of the strict rules and regulations, I dreaded having them as a teacher. So by the time I was sentenced to be one of their students I had instilled in my brain that I would not get along with the teacher and the whole class would go horribly. But needing the credit for school as well as a good looking transcript for colleges, I stuck with my schedual. As the class proceeded through out the quarter I found more and more reasons why that person is unlikable. But as I talked to them more out side of class to get help on assignments and specifics on the class, I learned that they are a decent person and I should have given them a chance right from the start and maybe the begining of the quarter would have gone differently. I think that this example of the horn effect has better allowed me to understand the deffinition of it as well as see what to look for in order to not allow myself to get influenced by it again.