How The Most Emotionally Intelligent People Make Great First Impressions

You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.

You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.

We've all been told ad nauseam how how important first impressions are—how it takes just a fraction of a second for others to form opinions about us. Not only have Princeton psychologists estimated that we form impressions of strangers based on their faces within just a tenth of a second, they discovered that longer exposures don't significantly alter those initial assessments (even though our confidence in those judgments may strengthen when we're given more time). And we also know that negative first impressions are difficult to overcome.

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