Plea bargains are not always easy to recognize. Negotiations that result in formal agreements are termed “explicit plea bargains.” However, some plea bargains are called “implicit plea bargains” because they involve no guarantee of leniency. Explicit bargains are the more important of the two....
Frequent errors include, for example, the halo effect, or the tendency to make inappropriate generalizations from one aspect of a person’s job performance. Others are leniency, the tendency to evaluate all people as outstanding and to give inflated ratings rather than accurate assessments of ...