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In Magical Britain, the halo effect actually works.
That sounds like it would work much better as a series of "In Magical Britain" jokes.
In Normal Britain, fundamental attribution is an error. In Magical Britain, all error can be attributed to someone's fundament!!
A lot of cognitive bias has tie-ins with "magical thinking". If you're living in a world where sympathetic magic works, why not the halo effect or gambler's fallacy?