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Photographer Cory Richards meets some children in Peru.
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A. Look at the photo. What do you think these people are like?
B. Skim the article. When do people create a first impression?
a. when they meet someone new
b. when they know someone well
C. Scan the article. When is a good first impression important?
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
When we meet a stranger, we create an idea of that person in our mind. We call this a first impression.
How do we create first impressions of people? Most of the time, we see what the person looks like. We look at the person's physical appearance, such as eyes, hair, and height.
A writer, Malcolm Gladwell, did a survey of the leaders of big companies in the United States. He found that a lot of them were tall men. Gladwell says that we choose taller people to be our leaders without knowing it. This is because tall people feel like leaders to us. But not everyone agrees. We don't always make important decisions based only on our first impressions.
Giving people a good first impression can be important, like in a job interview. But first impressions are not always true. We often change how we feel about people when we know them better.
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