Physical Attractiveness Affects Impression Formation When going somewhere from the first, we want to look our best and create a good impression on other people. There is a famous saying that first impression is a lasting impression. We want people to think positive about ourselves right from the first time they meet us. On the first day of college or school, students want to show our best and show positive characteristics to form an impression on other students and teachers. On a job interview is where people what to form a good impression on employers. In social psychology, this is known as impression formation where people form an impression of themselves. This is quite important in our society where people starts to form opinions of other
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The experimental study conducted by Asch 's "Forming Impressions of Personality" (1946), is a classic study of interpersonal perception. Asch believed that the traits of the person that we believe they possess are the most important factor in establishing the overall impression of that person. In Asch (1946) study, he used different types of measures to analyze the responses of participants which include open-ended measure, trait-pair choice measure, and ranking measure. The participants were given a list of traits containing the word "warm" or a list containing the word "cold" which included traits considering warm and cold. Then, the participants observed the target based on these three different measures. According to Asch, participants rated “warm” and “cold” as central factor in determining their impression. From his study, the trait-pair choice measure result concluded that changing a trait in a list from positive, “warm” to negative “cold” changes the overall impression of the participant to negative. His study concluded that the traits a person carries affect his or her impression …show more content…
(1995) and Zuckerman and Driver (1989) found that attractiveness, whether it is physical or vocal, had affect impression formation. People with physically attractiveness were viewed more positively and formed a positive impression. Nevertheless, Zuckerman et al. (1995) founded the more facial attractiveness form less positive impression where Zuckerman and Driver (1989) founded that more physical attractiveness formed better personality impression. Both of the studies found some similar and some different results. However, both studies showed impression formation in somewhat influence by physical
The experimental study conducted by Asch 's "Forming Impressions of Personality" (1946), is a classic study of interpersonal perception. Asch believed that the traits of the person that we believe they possess are the most important factor in establishing the overall impression of that person. In Asch (1946) study, he used different types of measures to analyze the responses of participants which include open-ended measure, trait-pair choice measure, and ranking measure. The participants were given a list of traits containing the word "warm" or a list containing the word "cold" which included traits considering warm and cold. Then, the participants observed the target based on these three different measures. According to Asch, participants rated “warm” and “cold” as central factor in determining their impression. From his study, the trait-pair choice measure result concluded that changing a trait in a list from positive, “warm” to negative “cold” changes the overall impression of the participant to negative. His study concluded that the traits a person carries affect his or her impression …show more content…
(1995) and Zuckerman and Driver (1989) found that attractiveness, whether it is physical or vocal, had affect impression formation. People with physically attractiveness were viewed more positively and formed a positive impression. Nevertheless, Zuckerman et al. (1995) founded the more facial attractiveness form less positive impression where Zuckerman and Driver (1989) founded that more physical attractiveness formed better personality impression. Both of the studies found some similar and some different results. However, both studies showed impression formation in somewhat influence by physical