Confirmation Bias: Your Brain Is So Judgmental

Don’t trust your first impressions… Your brain is working to lead you astray.

Social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, explains how to make up for lazy shortcuts made by your brain as well as how to guide other people around their first impressions of you.

Confirmation Bias

So there are lots of biases that you can basically count on your perceiver being subject to. They’re going to interfere with the way this person sees you. The first and pr...