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That's the opinion you formed after watching this YT video for 60 seconds?
Yup. Don't know why it took so long, must be slowing down in my old age.
How Many Seconds to a First Impression?
You'll never get a second chance to make a great first impression." We've all heard that an interviewer, or a stranger at a party, will form an impression of you, your character, your personality — …
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You’ll never get a second chance to make a great first impression.” We’ve all heard that an interviewer, or a stranger at a party, will form an impression of you, your character, your personality — an impression that is nearly indelible — all within the first 60 seconds of meeting you.
Or wait, is it 30 seconds? Twenty?
Two or three?
Forget whatever figure you may have heard. Not to intimidate you, if you happen to be preparing for a job or grad school interview, or a blind date, but new research shows that you may need to have your act together in the blink of an eye.
A series of experiments by Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov reveal that all it takes is a tenth of a second to form an impression of a stranger from their face, and that longer exposures don’t significantly alter those impressions (although they might boost your confidence in your judgments). Their research is presented in their article “First Impressions,” in the July issue of Psychological Science.