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1. Scholarly Reading 2. Formal Writing/ Research 3. Unique Audience 4. Criteria to Access Yourselve 5. Challenging Question

How accurate and changeable are first impressions in predicting people’s personalities? > While listening to loud music on the subway, would people ask earlier or later if I was wearing a hoodie compared to if I was wearing a t-shirt?

Unique Audience: People who ride subways everyday

Reading Plan http://www.springerlink.com/content/348p14262148315q/ Article on how human appearance may affect responses in businesses. It may tell whether appearance gives a positive or negative response, and reactions.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WM0-4D6YXJ1-4D&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F1974&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1676265727&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=cee2973340cd3ee0b89d3c767cd3acb3&searchtype=a This helps tell whether appearance affects judges decisions in courts. Responses by people in situations where appearance may give a different view.

http://books.google.co.kr/books?hl=ko&lr=&id=EM1NNzcR-V0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=appearance+affect+response+in+public+areas&ots=IGtmBUVobo&sig=OCqaLv9l0fmBZlRQH0n_37XAUls#v=onepage&q=appearance&f=false Book in appearance in public, how appearance may affect behaviors of the public and responses of actions or words.

Research Paper



Unique Audience For my research, my uncle, a businessman, was the unique audience. As a businessman meets people everyday, he knows how much first impressions can impact a person's decisions and actions. He gave a feedback paragraph by stating "This presentation overall was very well made with many characteristics telling about the accuracy of first impressions and also the probability of changing them. He was able to give good data and research through examples by other researchers. Not only was he able to incorporate the basics facts on first impression, but also able to form his own experiment relating to first impressions. I would have to wonder about his examples as one of them was from 1993, which may be have changed the perception of first impressions today. Although his experiment was helpful in explaining first impressions, it is questionable if it necessarily specific describes effect of first impressions. Would people asking to turn down the volume, necessarily describe whether first impressions play a large role in choices that are made. If he had made the experiment over a longer period of time with less variables, only appearance, then his results may have been much more accurate.