The Essays On Physiognomy By Solomon Asch

Burger (2008), says that there are many theories of personality and psychologists try to explain it with their own approaches. Discussed here will be the psychoanalytic approach, the trait approach, the biological approach the humanistic approach, the behavioural/social learning approach and the cognitive approach. They were devised to search for specific patterns in behaviour and ways of thinking about these

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

Feist, J., Feist, G. J., & Roberts, T. (2013). Theories of personality (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Human beings have evolved an incredible ability to form first impressions, rapidly and with a high degree of accuracy as a survival mechanism. Admittedly, it is still difficult to know whether to trust first impressions, given there are so many cautionary warnings. We are told how important it is to make a first impression when going on a first date, a job interview or to meet with a new client. We are also warned to never judge a book by its cover, indicating that our first impression could be flawed and suggesting that first impression are formed solely from appearance. Instead, I suggest that human beings are unconsciously skilled at making first impressions by rapidly assimilating information on visual, environmental and behavioral

Personality and how we behave have been of much interest to psychologists for a long time now and because of this there have been many theories and theorists that have been developed. Personality is defined as consistent behavior patterns and intrapersonal processes originating within and individual (Fritzley, 2012, p. 10). There are six main approaches to personality psychology they include: biological approach, humanistic approach, behaviorist approach, trait approach, psychoanalytic approach and cognitive approach. Each approach shines a little light onto why we behave the way we do and how our personalities are formed, the approaches contain many different theories from

While reading this article I felt that I could take on any future job interview head on. It gives the science behind first impressions and suggests advantages to help in your first impression. It is interesting to know that there is a scientific term for people being attracted to one another. The concept of thin-slicing is incredible, we break down various situations to make it easier to understand for

How first impressions are formed has been a subject of interest by many researchers in the area of psychology.

It is the external factors which serve as the basis for the ways in which we construct our impressions of others. This is the primary way

A person’s personality says much about who he or she is. People define personality in different ways. Researcher after researcher has tried to come up with the best definition for what personality truly means. Case studies, correlational studies, and experimental designs are some of the most commonly used methods of research. These methods help better define personality. The advantages and disadvantages of each method differ and can be helpful or hurtful to the research of an individual’s personality.

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.

firs impression is helping to make judgment to other people. if you make wrong with other person, he will hate you. for examples, when you push some person in the road and you raise your voice, he try to battling you. why sometimes say this is a poor person and may be we don't who is? because the form for body. try to be confidence with other person because the trust make other person enjoy when he see you. so, most person have trust instinct to other person because he want to do good. in my opinion, try to make a good judgment to other person because may be is the key for success. finally, the first impression key to recognize person, and it is the key for any

The primacy effect is a memory theory that claims items presented in the beginning of a series are more easily remembered than items presented later in the series. The primacy effect is mostly associated with short-term memory recall and has the greatest effect when there is no delay between the different pieces of given information (Straker, 2011). The primacy effect results from a cognitive bias that states items presented at the beginning of a sequential presentation are more easily remembered because at that time, the brain is more attentive and has fewer items to process, allowing them to be better stored and later recalled more easily (Weidman, 2016).

Nisbett and Timothy DeCamp Wilson (1977) in efforts to add supporting evidence to an ideal similar to the Halo Effect. They staged two interviews with participants where the interview in both was a man that had a distinct accent (Nisbett & Wilson,1977). The interviewer in one group was as charming as he could be in his “appearance and mannerisms and accent” (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977). In the other, he was instructed to basically act more strict and harsh to the subjects. The resulting difference in ratings of the interviewer’s personality and other factors by the participants spoke to how people immediately judge someone based on how they presented themselves through multiple characteristics.

The result of my college experience is that all of my classmates still cannot get a better result on Chinese as the teacher only have unusual teaching skills. Although we were paying attention on all classes, if the teacher was not good enough, we cannot learn anything. Sometime we are having a wrong concept that “others evaluation is our evaluation", this concept influences our judgement in others. Besides, the man was handsome but it does not mean he was a good teacher. The example shown that the perceptions of attractiveness may affect a variety of someone’s traits, which can support the idea of the halo effect.

Impression formation is an idea formed without consciousness based on little evidence to evaluate a judgement. The process of forming impression is determined through verbal communication, non-verbal communication and paralinguistic cues. Verbal communication is the content of what a person says. Non-verbal communication is the way we present ourselves without using spoken language while paralanguage is the way we talk other than spoken words. This research conducted was experimental. This is because there are two variables identified in this research which are independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV). The IV was the duration of time while the DV was the result of the First Impression Scale (FIS).The research question is ‘Are the results of the First Impression Scale affected by the time a person is exposed to the presenter?’ .Thus, the objective of this research is to find out whether the time a person is exposed to the video will affect the person’s impression on the presenter. This information could be important to determine how long an advertisement or a show should last to create a good impression among the audience. The research hypothesis is the longer a person is exposed to the video, the better the impression formed. The sample size of this research is small which is 38 psychology students in SAM program of Taylor’s College Subang Jaya. Participants were assigned randomly into two groups, Group 1 and Group 2, to watch a short video for