Boy with a frown

Alex reached over to the boy and tap his arm to catch his attention. He stopped looking around and quickly turned to Alex.

“Hey, have you partnered up with anyone?” Alex asked.

His frown dug deeper, although it was obvious by this point that he was confused.

“No? I guess you want to be ‘partners’?”

By partnering up with him, you have overcome the cognitive bias of the Halo effect (“what is beautiful is good”).

It turned out that the guy had accidentally fallen asleep during part of the introduction. Despite his initial disheveled appearance, he is friendly and apparently likes anime too.

“So what do you think about Kimi No Nawa when you watched it?”

“It sucks, too cliche.”

“I’m not into romance but it the graphics were cool.”