People often create illusions and are convinced that someone doesn't like us because they don't like us for one reason or another. It's time to relax and stop believing that someone is conspiring against you, because people often prefer you more than you think.
Making a good first impression is the hardest an ordeal, because you are probably all, depending on the situation, we want to create a good image, which will remain with another person in memory. Even when we meet new people, we form our own opinion and we like certain people less like it, although we have no particular reason. Accordingly, people often believe that most people don't like us either. And in new research they write that people prefer us to we think.
There is probably no worse feeling than belief, that someone doesn't like us, especially if the person fits. Meeting new people is definitely a big challenge, but don't worry, our first impression is better than we think. In a study on do people prefer us more than we think, have included many groups foreigners, who were forced to communicate with strangers. After the participants completed the s conversations, they had to rate your interlocutor and give an assessment of how they liked their interlocutor.
A phenomenon that experts have named 'the liking gap', explains that with their assessment they are participants underestimated, how much the interlocutor liked them and how much they enjoyed their company. So they are people said, that the interlocutor's company suited them significantly more than they did their interlocutors estimated that they would.
So what about you? prevents, to meet new people people?
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