Thin slices and first impressions. A balanced view of social perception.

Social perception is often influenced by: -Context effect. -Change blindness. -Confirmation biass. -Other psychollogical factors. A balanced view of social perception is that, on one hand, it can be distorted by all sort of factors, just as any other perception can be, but in the other hand it also operate with surprising efficiency. Examples of thin slices research: Thin slices are defined as brief excerpts of expressive behavior, sampled from the behavioral stream, that contain dynamic information and are less than 5 minutes long. -Social judgements can take place very rapidly, sometimes with surprising accuracy. -At the same time, they're prone to certain biases and distorsions, and once our judgement are formed,whether accurately or not, we tend to lock into them and search for confirming evidence rather than challenging the judgement we've already made.So first impressions matter. "you can't judge a book by its cover," or "There's never a second chance to make a first impression." Explanation The correct answer is "There's never a second chance to make a first impression." Contrary to the notion that "you can't judge a book by its cover," research has found that social judgments can be accurate when based on thin slices of behavior or even a single photograph of someone's face. On the other hand, it's true that there's never a second chance to make a first impression, because first impressions tend to guide and influence later impressions.