What are we basing our impression on when we judge someone on first perspective without interacting with them?

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When you see someone that you haven’t even met but you immediately start forming thoughts like “This person looks annoying” etc, is it true that people’s personality reflect on their phyiscal appearance? How often are our assumptions correct and how do they work? Thanks!

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There are obvious little things we pick up on that served an evolutionary purpose of keeping us safe from dangerous or untrustworthy people. From this we recognize less dangerous, but still socially relevant clues, and then personal preferences. It makes sense that we would instantly recognize something we find annoying so we can avoid this person, lest we offend them which could lead to downstream consequences, socially, or who knows, perhaps the person takes offence and goes postal. It’s all relevant

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