The primacy effect has not changed the way I viewed someone but has impacted the way I initially viewed a person. The primacy effect states that we “...attend to the first pieces of information that we observe about another person…” (Beebe, Beebe, & Redmond, 2014, p.69). During high school, I met many of the friends I have today. Although not all of the people I met during high school turned out to be my friends, I still met those people. When I first met my classmate named Elsa, I thought she was the most rude and arrogant person ever. She lacked manners and was all about herself. Due to the predicted outcome value theory, my belief of her was that she was not the best person to be around and I knew that I did not see her being my friend
