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8 Factors of First Impression

Website Secrets of Success (Секреты Успеха), in Russian, article First Impression on Person Consists of 8 Judgments (Первое впечатление о человеке состоит из 8 суждений),
https://uspeh-woman.com/pervoe-vpechatlenie-o-cheloveke-sostoit-iz-8-suzhdeniy/

  1. DO YOU DESERVE TRUST?

    • A study at Princeton University showed that people determine their level of trust in a person within one tenth of a second of a face-to-face meeting.

  2. ARE YOU SELF-CONFIDENT?

    • As human beings, we tend to evaluate self-confidence based on how a person walks and first comes in contact with other people. [Impression] is formed during the first few seconds of the meeting... under the influence of a certain behavior and body language.

  3. DO YOU HAVE A HIGH STATUS?

    • ... the first impression of a person is formed simply from the visual impact of clothing and the perceived connection between wealth and social status.

  4. WILL YOU BE SUCCESSFUL?

    • Despite the identical body and face shapes, the majority of study participants rated people in suits as more successful. These data also confirm the connection between wealth, clothing and our social status, which is also included in the overall first impression of a person.

  5. ARE YOU AN EXTROVERT?

    • Extrovert is a type of personality that in its manifestations is oriented towards others. There are numerous physical factors underlying the body language, and the handshake remains the most studied, discussed and constitutes the first impression of a person in a meeting. ...a confident and firm handshake is strongly interconnected with certain character traits, including “openness to new experience” and, most indicative, extraversion.

  6. ARE YOU SMART?

    • ... eye contact affects how your intelligence is perceived. ... the ability to look directly into the interlocutor’s eyes is a key indicator of mental abilities and wit and is assessed at the first impression of a person. ...the ability to speak clearly and expressively is also of great importance, as is the use of a competent sound language. ...it’s easy to create a false impression of intelligence by simply manipulating these proven metrics.

  7. DO YOU DOMINATE?

    • ...bald men (or rather, those who shaved their heads) are evaluated at the first impression of a person as more dominant than others with a shock of hair. These people also seem taller and stronger than they really are, which allows them to mislead people and leave a positive first impression of themselves.

  8. DO YOU LIKE RISK?

    • ... we can assume that there is a close connection between how a person walks and his sense of risk.

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