Quotes About Impression formation

Amos and I called our first joint article "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers." We explained, tongue-in-cheek, that "intuitions about random sampling appear to satisfy the law of small numbers, which asserts that the law of large numbers applies to small numbers as well." We also included a strongly worded recommendation that researchers regard their "statistical intuitions with proper suspicion and replace impression formation by computation whenever possible.

The mental work that produces impressions, intuitions, and many decisions goes on in silence in our mind.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Even if he or she isn't aware of it, every individual spends an entire lifetime creating and evolving a personal image that others perceive.

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions — we can alter the way we thin-slice — by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

I had heard "communist bloc" and "behind the iron curtain" so much in the media, that i had naturally formed the impression that these countries were all the same. Although they are all socialist, East Germany, Bulgaria, Cuba, and North Korea are as different as night and day.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.

It is I suppose comprehensible that the letters which we receive from a person are more or less similar and combine to trace an image of the writer so different from the person whom we know as to constitute a second personality.

She may not be all that bland. She looked quite fetching today, actually.' Terrance turned a glare on Stu. The man put his hands up as if to ward off an attack. 'Not that I noticed.