There are various estimates of the accuracy of our first impressions, but the magazine Psychology Today estimates first impressions to be only 30 percent accurate.

Four examples (four panels) of how different mental state inferences (y-axis) are shaped by first impressions from faces (x-axis) across samples from different world regions (indicated by ...

Ann Demarais, author of First Impressions, suggests you do it in context, for example, when pointing the person toward something. Use their name every few minutes.

I knew the pickings were slim when the first example that came to my mind was George Wallace. For most of his life, Wallace was a segregationist and unapologetic racist.

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"However, many of the features we identified as correlated with social impressions are far less obvious. For example, an unapproachable-looking person has a pale, drawn appearance." ...

Brooks' review also takes Gladwell to task for failing to sufficiently back up his thesis on the power -- and frequently, the accuracy -- of first impressions.