You Have Us at “Hello” or Not. How to Make a Good Impression
The process of judging each other is a messy one based on irrational, warped, and unfair assumptions. Here’s how to cut through all that and make a good first impression. Maybe even correct a bad one.
Hopefully, you liked the headline and the picture. Because if not, this article is already doomed. Then all the research was for the birds, and the experts I’ve chosen to help us out are left to hope that someone somewhere else will find their work interesting. And you, in turn, will never get to the bottom of how to retain control over the first impression you make with people — an awful fate because if the first impression goes awry, there’s almost nothing you can do. Your boss will forevermore see you as the disrespectful boor because five years ago, you couldn’t identify his joke as such and didn’t laugh.
It only takes a split second to believe we know everything about that new person in front of us. Our judgments of others come fast and furious and then sit down to relax in our brains for the rest of our days. If that weren’t enough, they also chime in on every future interaction with that person and resist any new information that could potentially revise an unjustified opinion. And…
