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Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm

Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about the factors that

determine how other people see us with Vivian Zias from Cornell University.

You'll also learn about why and how you should avoid asking for too much advice.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

It's not just how we look or how we act that determines how people see us.

So what does determine what people think of us?

Researchers might have some hunches based on some ongoing studies.

And one of those researchers is Vivian Sius,

the Director of the Personality Attachment and Control Laboratory

at Cornell University.

She's back for another edition of our Mentality Monday's miniseries,

with some insights in how researchers study first impressions.

But more than that, she has some surprising information about exactly how subjectively people really see each other.

What she told us might surprise you.

You know, a lot of the work on first impressions tends to focus on some people are, for example, more attractive

than other people.

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