It was applied to the leadership literature that same year by Terence R. Mitchell, James R. Larson, and Stephen G. Green, “Leader Behavior, Situational Moderators, and Group Performance: An Attributional Analysis,” Defense Technical Information Center, Accession No: AD1021285. The fundamental idea—that positive attributes will be construed as occurring together even if they don’t, undergirds the argument in Phil Rosenzweig, The Halo Effect (New York: Free Press, 2007).
