First Impressions: Research Findings and Real-World Impact

Analysis of First Impression Study Results

Question 1: True/False Statements

• a. False. Society has taught us two crucial—and contradictory—codes to live by: “Never judge a book by its cover” and “First impressions last a lifetime.” Yet new research shows that first impressions may be misleading.
• b. False. “He took photos of 100 students at the University of St. Andrews, ensuring that they were standardized by only picking those who wore no jewellery, wore neutral expressions, and were Caucasian.”
• c. True. “We automatically assume that attractive people are more intelligent.”
• d. False. “The implications of this study are quite severe when real-world situations are taken into account.”

Question 2: Summary Points

• a. Dr. Talamas chose 100 photographs of university students. He made sure they were white, had no accessories, and showed no special feelings.
• b. First impressions influence the way we react towards other people, not only in our personal relationships in the family but also in public life.

Question 3: Vocabulary Matching

• a. Misleading
• b. Rated
• c. Actual
• d. Bias
• e. Taken into account / To take into account.

Question 4: Sentence Reconstruction

• a. We have been taught two crucial codes to live by by society.
• b. He said that the power of first impressions was critical and had been shown to influence our opinion.
• c. If Noah had made a good impression on the employer, he would have got the job.

Redacción: The Importance of First Impressions

Making a good first impression results **really important** for people nowadays: for a job interview, when you date someone...

However, most of the times, the first impression someone **has** of the others is absolutely wrong because **getting to know** someone well may take you a long time. Sometimes, people just see the other people's **very first impression**, a fact that affects wrongly their perception of the **real** impression. Those impressions are mostly based on their physical look, the way of dressing, their way of talking, their gestures...

For making a **nice** impression, you have to be natural, honest, and loyal; and probably using the **right** way when talking.

In conclusion, we can't rely on the first impressions, because they may be artificial and misleading. Overall, we have to be ourselves and **always** be with a smile on the face.