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In that instance, you were probably aware of a gut instinct – you may have felt as if your sense of perception was heightened because there was the possibility of danger – but we thin-slice people in all kinds of situations, not just when we feel threatened. If you’ve ever changed seats on a train or crossed the road to avoid someone, because there was something “not quite right about them”, you’ve used your ability to thin-slice. From the evidence gleaned in not much more than a few glances, we decide whether we like another person, whether they’re trying to flirt with us, whether they’re friend or foe. His research is based on the theory that we make a reasonably accurate assessment of a person from observing just a few seconds, or a “thin slice”, of their behaviour. “Professor Frank Bernieri of Oregon State University is an expert in what’ s known as “thin-slicing methodology”. The power of ‘thin-slicing’ and First Impressions “The results showed that initial liking judgments based on a photograph remained unchanged even after obtaining more information about a person via an actual live interaction.” Society for Personality and Social Psychology “Moreover, participants’ initial judgments based on the photograph colored personality judgments following the interaction,” Zayas said.

Vivian Zayas of Cornell University and Gül Günaydin of Middle East Technical University found that viewing a photograph can be a good predictor of how you will judge someone in person. Her new research shows that initial impressions based on viewing a single photograph accurately predict how a person will feel about the other person in a live interaction that takes place more than a month later. Science of Sex Appeal: What Women Find Attractive – First Impressions The social experiment is not a large enough sample size to prove anything, but is fascinating example of the influence of first impressions.

This particular video demonstrates how cars, status and money influence women’ s attractiveness to men, without them knowing its influence on their first impression in many cases.

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I was thinking about the similarity to a documentary on Discovery Channel, part of the Science of Sex Series I watched years ago. First impressions are based on a wide range of characteristics: age, race, culture, language, gender, physical appearance, accent, posture, voice, number of people present, and time allowed to process.” Wikipedia Impression accuracy varies depending on the observer and the target (person, object, scene, etc.) being observed. “In psychology, a first impression is the event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of that person. I think it would be fun to conduct a similar experiment with a variable that isn’t part of a marketing campaign.Ī Social Experiment in First Impressions – Take Identical Twins, Give One of Them Gum…And Watch What Happens Next It is fun watching the different responses people have as they interpret characteristics of people based on little more than first impressions. I do not think it proves anything but interesting still. I thought this was an interesting social experiment in first impressions.

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