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It's a cliche that you only get one chance to make a first impression,

but it turns out that science bears this out. First impressions matter,

and they're often surprisingly accurate. From the moment you meet someone, at a party, a job interview,

or even just crossing paths at the grocery store, your brain is quickly summing them up. Whether

you mean to do it or not, you're assigning people to social categories and

making judgments about their personality and other qualities. But exactly how accurate our first

impressions. What kinds of information can we glean about someone in the first moments of meeting

them or even from just a photograph? Can you tell whether someone is extroverted, trustworthy,

a good leader, gay or lesbian? What about their political leanings or whether they grew up

wealthy? To what degree are our first impressions based on something real and to what extent are they

based on stereotypes or biases? And what are the real world consequences of our accurate and inaccurate snap judgments?

Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association

that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills.

My guest today is Dr. Nicholas Ruhl, a professor of psychology and vice provost for academic

programs at the University of Toronto.

His research focuses on the science of snap judgments and first impressions.

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