First impressions are basically judgments of people and the first things you notice about a person. When you meet someone new you start to make a back-story about what you see. Like when I meet my teachers at the beginning of the year I can try and guess what they are like when they teach. If they talk to themselves and have a slight stutter like my freshman year English teacher then they will most likely be one of those teachers who are hard to follow. And if they are very compassionate and caring like my sophomore year English teacher then they will most likely be the kind of teacher who gives you extra time if you don’t finish your assignment or only grades your vocabulary homework on completion and not content.  Based off of these first impressions I knew how my school year was going to play out and I knew which classes I had to work harder in to get the teacher to appreciate my work.

First impressions are judgments so you cannot say that you do not judge. When you meet a person you do not like, you judge them and pick the things that stand out, which may be the reasons you do not like them. And when you find someone you do like then you realize you like them based off of the judgments you made when you first met them, which were their first impressions. First impressions can be made the very first time you meet someone or when you see someone you have known for a long time. When you have know someone for a longtime you get accustomed to how they present themselves and how they walk and talk, and when they change that to make a better first impression on the date you set them up with then they can make another first impression on you. Well basically you are just judging them and what they are wearing.

I know that when I went out for my job interview my sister was already working there and I already had the job “in the bag”. However, I wanted to make sure I dressed nicer than usual and did not stink. This was because I did not want the owner thinking I was an unhygienic blog. People who are looking for jobs try to put the most things that could qualify them for a certain job in their resume, to make the best first impression. They want to impress their possible future boss. Everyone does this. These are the stipulations of life. When we are in a job interview we try as much as we can to glorify the business or please the boss with big words that have to do with the job. Most likely, unless you know them, your job interview is the first time you meet your possible boss so you try your best to make a good first impression during the interview.

First impressions and snap judgments are ultimately the same thing. People who make snap judgments have to compartmentalize the different judgments from different times and focus on the ones they made in that moment when the new person made their impressions. Most people say that it only takes seven seconds to make a first impression. And that is barely enough time to say a full sentence. With this in mind, most first impressions are made solely on what a person looks like. So if you are someone who dresses in business clothes then you are more likely to get a job before the man in the t-shirt with the sleeves ripped off and the tattooed arms. In my experience most men with successful business jobs don’t have their body covered in “ink”. They instead bathe daily and stay professional.

It is hard to make a good first impression if the person you are talking to is the complete opposite. If you were to put a neurosurgeon and a plumber in a room to talk and make first impressions then they would just start judging each other even though they both have successful jobs but one pays more than the other. In todays world the surgeon may have nothing to think badly about the plumber because without them we would not be able to have running water. And the plumber may not think badly of the neurosurgeon, because he has the power to help keep lives on this planet. However, they still manage to make judgments, good or bad, about each other and as humans we will never stop. It is an instinct to make first impressions and it may be what has kept us alive for so many years.