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From the moment we walk on a stage or appear in
video we are being judged. Our every move speaks
volumes before we say a single word. It is even more
so in video where everything is amplified and
WE LIVE magnified.

“Behavioral scientists call it the first impression bias:
IN A a limitation in human information processing that
causes us to make quick and incomplete
observations about others based on the first piece of
information we perceive.” [The Decision Lab]
VISUAL If science tells us first impressions can lead to quick

assumptions and snap judgements, what do we do if
those decisions are not in our favor?
WORLD What can we do to prepare ourselves to have some

control over what people instantly feel? To prepare
for that reality, meet it, take control of it, and direct
it?

By Elaine Hausman

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