Psychology Of People Who "Disliked Someone Before They Spoke"

Your brain forms an opinion about a new person in about four seconds — then spends the rest of the conversation collecting evidence for it. This is what's actually happening in that window, and the three steps that stop a first impression from becoming a permanent verdict. Based on Nalady's six-second teaching study (1993), Nisbett & Wilson's 1977 lecturer experiment, and Lord, Ross & Lepper's 1979 study on how evidence makes us more certain, not less. Chapters 0:00 The decision you didn't make 0:30 Six seconds, no sound 1:25 Thin slicing 3:05 The halo effect 5:35 The confirmation loop 7:40 The three-step protocol New video every week. Below 12 minutes, always. #psychology #cognitivebias #firstimpressions