Do your 1st impressions of people turn out to be mostly accurate or inaccurate?

The first impressions of people turn out to be mostly inaccurate. Most people will not show their real nature before strangers. Sometimes they even pretend. Only after knowing him/her for a long time can we know him well.

for me, some of my impressions to people turns to be accurate and some does not. it depends on the person who you are giving the impression. there were times that i thought this certain girl is quite, simple and conservative. then it turns out that she's loud, over the top, and very liberated. others, when i see them, there's this feeling that i've known them before and they're easy to make friends with. as it turns out, we'll be great friends and shares similar interest +.+ many times i've been judge by other people as snob and very quite. that's their first impression for me. they always say that when they've actually been attached to me and we are very close already. it's good thing that their impression for me turns out to be the opposite. i just laugh at their impressions about me. i thought you were like this and that... impressions could be wrong or not, as long as you see the real person behind that impression you have for them =)

Many times I would consider myself being a Good judge of character and will usually end up picking people to want to get to know more as Good people and they are. I actually should have recently listened to my gut instinct on the last person we tried to rent too, who just never wanted to listen. I felt a bit of discomfort talking with him on the phone, and then in person the first day he has here, and did not listen. Now that we are interviewing potential renters again I am going to listen more before choosing someone and hope my instincts are right.

I don't usually judge people the first time. I try to know the person first before judging them. Actually, we don't really have the right to judge someone but, these days, we have to keep a mental profile of everyone around us just to be safe.

I'm really poor at judging person so i try my best not to. I am very vulnerable and i easily trust people so now i'm learning not to be so trusting. This reminded me of what my impression was on my high school teacher. I really admired her as she was pretty despite her age. Her daughter was one of my friends but I didn't base my judgment on that. I judged her based on my own observation. I really admired her looks and her brains. I always paid attention in her class and really looked up to her as a very fashionable doting mom and a good wife. One time she asked me, if i believe first impression lasts, to which i answered in the affirmative. She said she doesn't. I was a bit confused what she meant at that time, but later i realized that she was right. She turned out to be a totally different person than i thought. A few months later she ran away with another man and abandoned her family.

Hi Awinds..this is a great post! I like to think that I trust no one anyway..but as for first impressions, Im usually pretty accurate..Its like I can tell what their personality is like from the get go.. Im not judgmental in any way and know that anyone can put on an act on, I base my judgments on what that individual is like with ME, and if it ever gets to that point, my family too. Yet this is a gradual process, as it takes time to get to know a person..you can know someone for 10 years and they can still be a mystery.. (",)..

I think the first impression can give you valuable clues about the person in front of you, as long as you pay attention to as many details as possible. Mine are pretty accurate.

Hi Awinds and welcome to my lot. What your describing as judging is called spiritual decrement. God gives us all spiritual decrenment and HE expects us to know right from wrong. I never think about what someone is wearing who knows what they can or can't afford. When I meet a person I look and listen to what they are saying and how they look when they are talking. A person that can't look someone in the face when speaking to me seems like a person that isn't trust worthy of too much of my time. When I speak to anyone I always look them in the eyes. If I get a bad feeling about someone then it is usually right. I give people the opportunity to prove who they are. If someone is showering you with gifts need to look and wonder why they are doing this. For example my husbands wife she has always been showering me with all kinds of gifts and trying to buy my friendship, but at the same time in my face she is eying my husband up and down like he is a piece of meat, then when she can't force me to do something for her she tells lies about me. She is the type of person I feel that God would want people to stay away from. God gives us all spiritual decrement for us to stay away from evil. If you get a bad feeling about someone it is God telling you to stay away from them. But I never judge anyone not my place just know that first impressions is usually right. Good luck and God bless!

A lot of times, first impressions rarely mean much of anything to me. I give people a chance to prove themselves over time. Or rather enough rope to hang themselves as the case may be. The fact of the matter is, there are going to be a lot of times where people that we meet seem rather intimidating and rather off at first. Until we really get to know them and that's not something that we do at first. So yeah, first impressions are sometimes spot on but it is very, very rarely that I am right. I tend to judge them by experience, as opposed to what little impression that I might get at first. As it turns out, there are going to be a lot of times where the brighter the smile, the bigger the knife that they are going to stick into your back, but you would think that they were a nice person at first glance. Or maybe they are a nice person, maybe with some people what you see is what you get. There are all sorts out there.

Unfortunately in my life first impressions was not occur, if occur they were failed. So i can try my level best to show my real way, they can know after some time. That will remain for ever in their hearts.

Most of the time my first impressions of people turn out to be accurate. I don't know if it's a gift, but whatever it is I'm glad i have such ability, because it really helps me to choose the right person whom I should be friends with. It's like I know how to read someones attitude even if I only see him or her for the first time.

My first impressions are usually right. I think most of us just give away enough information about us as to enable a accurate first impression. But there are people, that can cheat you by pretending to be something else, if they are skilled at pretending and experienced at it they can sway you to believe them. But this rarely stands the test of time and usually in time you are able to see beyond the lie.

Yes, usually my first impression turns out to be accurate but sometimes it happens to meet really good "actors" in life that can easily deceive everybody. Fortunately these people are not that many because it's really hard to deal with them. You can't be sure what they really think and what they are capable of doing. I don't like this kind. I prefer the natural people. The ones that when they tell me "Good afternoon" I don't need to check up the sun. :)

In my opinion, at the first impression, you can't have an accurate knowledge about the person but an approximately. It's possible to have the wrong impression too. However you can build an opinion by hearing the voice, looking the eyes, the posture, the gestures and knowing the thinking. Each person has different feelings. To have an accurate impression will help by going beyond sympathy and antipathy.

I stopped this when I was in highschool. The first time I saw my highschool orchestra teacher I thought he was mean. But he wasn't. So from then on I didn't go by appearance when I meet someone. I just get to know them first.

i dont believe in 1st impression as you will never know a certain person unless you live with them in one roof. sometimes its easy to fake people with your smile nor gesture though somehow theres something in them that lies behind those actions.

I am quite in between about this. Well, I do employ first impression on my private opinion of the person and usually take notes on what they are or whatever they are doing. I don't call it judging but observing. However, that would be the start of my opinion of the person. I usually have certain assumptions on a person but I don't act on it unless I know the person better. If I would have the chance to interact, it would likely approve or disapprove of my opinion and my certain observation of him or her. That would start, in return, a relationship or a bond. I don't really judge but they are times that I do, being a feeble and sometimes close-minded human at times. But I try to remedy that and understand the person and their point of view as much as possible.

I've found that I'm definitely not a good judge of character. I seem to always get people wrong when I meet them - usually I seem to be too trusting of people. Maybe that's not a bad thing, but sometimes it can lead to problems - I never expect people to do anything horrible and I sometimes get disappointed. This is especially the case with boys - I seem to think that some boys are really lovely people and inevitably they end up hurting me! So although its a good thing to be trusting, it can sometimes be dangerous to just blindly trust everyone - you should be careful about who you put your faith in, and wait until you know someone better before you judge them, good or bad.

first impression happen when we are briefly exposed to a person. The accuracy of our judgment can be right or wrong. In my case, people have always a wrong impression about me. Most of my friends admitted that they put up their defenses right away because they see me as a very snobbish. I can't blame them to be very cautious in dealing with me because I appear that way because of my upbringing.

As being a human being, hmmm..I can't help sometimes to think something about people I meet for the first time. Some of of my first impression are accurate but there are times that I am wrong. The good thing to do is know the person well.