▶ Your Answer : There are a lot of controversies over whether first impressions tell a lot about people or not. Some people agree with the saying, "Do not judge the book by its cover". However I think first impressions have a great effect on people's thinking since people still judge a person based on his or her look and a person's look shows his or her personality.
First of all, people have more tendency to make an important decision by just looking at others' appearances. When people first meet with other people, they try to know each other by their looks and decide to do something. For example, I read once the article about the importance of first impression. It said that people are more likely to judge others based on their looks in an important place such as blind date or meeting for the trade. They make up thier minds to go on a date or to do a business with their opponents by just looking at them since they don't have enough time and their looks are the only source. In this sense people consider first impressions as an important matter when deciding something.
Secondly, a person's appearance reveals who he or she is. This is because even if people don't want to, their looks itself tell what kinds of personality they have. For instance, when one of the interviewers who has interviewd candidates many times for the company was invited to give a lecture to students, I attended and learned some skills to succeed interview. Interview usally lasts only 30 minutes or an hour so that I thought it looked too short to know about one person. However, he told us taht it did not take long to judge a candidate since thier faces show if they are optimistic and promising or not. The company prefer to choose the one who always smiles since he gives a positive impression while the one who does not smile at all gets a bad grade since he gives a negative impression. He emphasiezed one thing that first impression says everything.
In conclusion, I do believe that first impressions show many things about people since not only people decide important things by one's look but also one's look shows his or her personality. The face that people try to make a good impression when meeting the first time tells us that first impression is very important.
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