Section 1 The concept I am going to discuss is clinging to first impressions. Clinging to first impressions means that when we originally meet someone, we decide what they are like from that one time of meeting them. A first impression is what causes someone to like or not like someone depending on the kind of person they get along with. Interplay states, “If our impressions are accurate, they can be useful ways of deciding how to respond best to people in the future (124).” Carlin Flora compares a first impression to a Polaroid picture of someone that never fades. This analogy is a metaphor to describe how a first impression sticks with someone. They never go away and stay with someone to be judged every time you see them after that. …show more content…
Interplay states that confirmation bias is what people use when they try to find proof of the impression they develop. People often times ask people and do things with them that will prove their opinion so that others can see that they are right. After someone is hired you often see supervisors observe their employees work to see if they are doing their job right to see if they truly are right for the job. When in a business, a patron will often try to find out if everything that is advertised is there and get the most out of what they were paid. If a hotel has a bad rating many people will look for reasons why it is a bad hotel. Clinging to first impressions is what causes anyone and anything to be liked or disliked. Once those impressions are made people do their best to find proof to support their belief. People often times have a hard time giving up their belief or even changing it slightly. The second term I am going to discuss is social comparison. Interplay mentions that social comparison is when a person evaluates themselves to another person. Social comparison occurs when we start to meet people and develop our own idea of who we are and what we want to be. At the moment we compare ourselves to others to determine how we feel about ourselves. Interplay states that our social comparisons are formed from what we consider important and unimportant which they refer to as reference groups. They state
Some people said that first impressions are almost impossible to change. while others said first impression are able to change when we get through it. In this time it hard to judge people by just looking. we can’t tell people whether they are good or bad by their physical appearance, or we can’t tell about their personality by their first impression. This the time people don’t trust each other and love each other. In my position i completely disagree by the ideal thinking of that first impressions are almost impossible to change. I believe that first impression is possible to change . There are some examples we could proof it such as, the more you get to know somebody , the best you can evaluate his/ her personality, other is we have to
The attraction theory of similarity is described in the book as simply that “people tend to like other people who are similar to themselves” (Social Psychology, 98). There are five main reasons that similarity
Everyone has primacy effects to the person that he or she first meets, maybe base on the dressing, behaviors, even hair style. People always want to give others a good first impression, especially searching for a job or having an interview, because sometimes it is hard to change the formed first impression, and this first impression may decide whether they can have jobs or not. However, the absolute thing does not exist in the world. A bias named recency effect comes out. Recency effect is something may leads people to change the first impression. Perhaps just a casually action, or an accumulated over a long period hard working, the first impression will be changed. For example, Cady has a not bad impression on Regina, for Regina is really beautiful and cute, like a Barbie doll. But everything changes after Regina seduces Aaron, who is the boy Cady really loves. The first impression is ruined, Cady becomes hating Regina, and wants to revenge
Sometimes humans make snap judgments about things with a very limited amount of information. Without all of
Four principal scholars explored the symbolic interaction theory, George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, William Isaac Thomas, and Herbert Blumer (Smith & Hamon, 2012). George Herbert Mead proposed that through interaction with others, we learn about ourselves—this is done through three stages; play stage, game stage, and generalized other (Smith & Hamon, 2012). He identifies the movement between “I” and “me.” “I” being the spontaneous, immediate reactions to a situation, “me” being the roles learned from prior experiences (Smith & Hamon, 2012). Charles Horton Cooley had the idea of the “looking-glass self”—which explains individuals consider how they appear to others in order to create their own concept of themselves (Smith & Hamon, 2012). The third scholar, William Isaac Thomas, was known for the definition of the situation, which led to the idea that understanding perspective of the people involved in the situation was necessary to understand human behavior in general (Smith & Hamon, 2012). The Thomas Theorem stated
inferences and judgements about people and sometimes forget that it is our own viewpoint that
How first impressions are formed has been a subject of interest by many researchers in the area of psychology.
A positive first impression can be thought of as the first step in building a long-term relationship.
Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to prefer information that reinforces a thought or believe that they have. People demonstrate this bias when they retain information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotional issues and for deeply rooted beliefs. (Science Daily)
First Impressions First impressions are very important. In the Victorian age, people based their whole opinion of someone on first impressions. Most times the first impression of someone is not the way they truly are. Sometimes a first impression can cause you to think negative of someone but later you find out that they are very nice and a very positive person. One example is when Mr. Darcy meets Elizabeth in the book ,Pride and Prejudice.
‘In a very large and interesting class of cases the social reference takes the form of a somewhat definite imagination of how one's self--that is any idea he appropriates--appears in a particular mind, and the kind of self-feeling one has is determined by the attitude toward this attributed to that other mind. A social self of this sort might be called the reflected or looking glass self: " Each to each a
The Problem with society is that we cannot accept that we are all different. Many people have seen others as different from themselves but feel that they are in the majority of people that are alike. This can be called social discrimination. Stereotypes are prevalent in society. Stereotypes are inevitable and unpreventable. As we accept that we are always under scrutiny in others eyes we begin to examine ourselves. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of stereotyping and discover how they lead to greater social identity. Once they learn their identity they find themselves stereotyping themselves and others.
People who are in a group or belong to and even assigned to the group, they would naturally think of the member within that group as the in-groups while others outside the group would be the out-groups. This can be explained by social categorization. People would normally categorize other people into different categories, including themselves. And bond between the in-groups would form. This however, would develop a discrimination between the in-group and out-group where people would favor the in-group more. Social categorization can be seen in the study done by Cialdini et .al (1976). The main purpose of the study is to find out whether people would favor their own “in-group” members more than the other people, the “out-groups”. Researcher uses two methods. First, researchers find fans from 7 different large United State prestigious football universities in a field experiment. Researchers then observed the student’s
Comparing ourselves to others to see how we measure up and using past experiences can effect perceptions that we have with others. There are many processes that influence perception. Consciously deciding what information to pay attention to can influence many decisions we make. Understanding different cultures and
This Study verified that your first impressions are lasting and can directly affect your personal or working relationships. It was also very interesting that if you have already made that first impression and have developed a level of trust, the outcome is different. The same betrayal of trust in this case can be rebuilt, as long as the first impression was positive and the relationship was a good one. Therefore, that good first impression that your parents are always harping on, (they are pretty smart after all) is a really important aspect of life.