4 Factors That Strongly Influence First Impressions, By A Psychologist

Your first impression of someone may have less to do with them than you think. Here are the four hidden factors that really shape social judgments, according to research.

4 Factors That Strongly Influence First Impressions, By A Psychologist. Your first impression of someone may have less to do with them than you think. Here are the four hidden factors that really shape social judgments, according to research. For something that forms in a matter of seconds, first impressions carry disproportionate weight on our social lives. It can dictate who we trust, who we avoid, who gets hired and who gets overlooked. It even shapes whether we imagine someone to be kind, competent or dangerous before they’ve spoken a full sentence. Psychologists have long known that first impressions emerge astonishingly quickly. In some studies, people begin forming judgments about trustworthiness within just 39 milliseconds of seeing a face. However, the most pressing question that has lingered beneath that research is: Where do th...