Impression management

Expectations. It spans from the first impression and someone creates who they think you are in their mind. After that, it’s up to you to prove to that person that they are right or wrong about the person they met. It is impossible to know who a person is just on meeting them the first time so most likely the original expectations are incorrect. People will surprise you with who they are so we should focus more on getting to know what’s on the inside rather than what is presented on the surface.…

Harold H. Kelly’s (1950) research report, The warm cold variable in first impressions of persons, investigates early judgments, such as preconceived expectations one may have about another based on what one has been told, (or in the case of RateMyProfessor.com, read) the hypothesis also goes into how these early judgments influence interaction with someone. The experiment took place with 55 subjects all of whom were students at MIT. There were two different types of notes distributed among the…

Impressions We are often told not to judge someone by the way they look, however we are unable to stop ourselves from making snap judgements about people no matter how hard we try. In the article “First Impressions from Faces” by Leslie A. Zebrowitz, she describes the first impressions we make of people and why we form those certain impressions. People are characterized by their central traits and peripheral traits. Central traits have a greater impact on impression. For example, if you have…

First Impressions When you first meet someone you are going to have first impressions or preconceptions. For example when the europeans and native americans first were introduced i'm sure they had first impressions and ideas of what they were like. what do you first think they had thought about each other? When the europeans first met the native americans they were most likely scared at first. They had never met before. Being first introduced to someone for the first time can be frightening.…

Managing impression and Identities start from the moment a person walks into a room. When you are looking at a person, you are looking at how they walk, how they look and how the person smells (Bevan & Sole, 2014). Our identities are shaped by how we feel others look at us (Bevan & Sole, 2014). If a person is going for a job interview, the interviewer will use impressions the interviewee gives off, toward whether or not they get the job. If the interviewee is not wearing professional clothes,…

Impression formation is predicting what a person is like based on your first impressions. An example of this if you were to encounter a man at a cafe who was wearing ripped clothing and looked unkept. You initial would think that the person was homeless, untrustworthy, and dirty. Whereas, if you encountered a man wearing a suit, well kept, and had a smile on his face on a first impression, you would believe he was trustworthy, honest, and smart. However, you might your impressions may be…

First Impressions They say you should never judge a book by it’s cover. Like the front of a book, initial introductions are not generally as engaging as what is truly there. It's not until after you begin "perusing", or become more acquainted with somebody, when you truly discover that what you see is not generally what you get. There are a few elements that can influence the initial introduction that one gets from another. Varying identity, circumstances, and the presentation of the person.…

part of your life, and impact you immensely? Does this connection influence you in a beneficial way or a bad way? When you first meet a person, or try a new hobby for example, all you think about is what others around you are wondering . First impressions are important, but are you gonna let these thoughts affect you? This applies to so many types of interactions you have everyday and you don't even realize it. Imagine being a young, homeless African American black teenager with little to no…

when residents are in our room with us. Back stage is considered to be off campus with our friends, at home with our family, or in our rooms by ourselves. Differentiating between front stage and back stage is very important when it comes to impression management. On the front stage, an RAs actions are being constantly watched, whether it be by a resident, other students, other RAs, staff or faculty. An RA has different expectations and roles that they have to fall into in different…

the way they present themselves, personally, manage impressions of themselves, with others. Impression Man-agement Theory (CITATION), WHICH INVOLES (X), is and has been widely applied to the investigation of personal descriptions in online profiles on behalf of self-presentation, combined with social desirability. Specifically, the extent to deceive was linked with the expectation to further face-to-face communication, in the field of impression manage-ment, as the literature points out (“POINTS…