这是一个两分钟的世界
◎文/英格丽·张
《青年文摘·彩版》2008年第10期“工作坊”
心理学家研究发现，人们的第一印象形成是非常短暂的，有人认为是见面的前40秒，有人甚至认为是前两秒，在一眨眼的工夫，人们就已经对你盖棺论定了。有时就是这几秒钟会决定一个人的命运。因为在生活节奏紧张的现代化社会，很少有人愿意花更多时间去深入了解、旁观再证一个留给他不美好的第一印象的人。
人们总是由于对第一印象的信任，而宁肯忽视后来的印象。尽管我们理直气壮地讲：“不要以书的表面来判断其内容。”但是不可否认，全世界范围内人人都在这么做，包括我们自己。别人在根据我们的外表和举动判断我们所包含的内容；我们也通过观察别人的外表，包括长相、身材、服装、言语、声调、动作等等来判断他们。
我们是如何进行这样的判断呢？55%取决于你的外表，包括服装、个人面貌、体形、发色等；38%是自我表现，包括你的语气、语调、手势、站姿、动作、坐姿等等；只有7%才是你所讲的真正内容。心理学家还发现，当我们走进一个陌生的环境，人们立刻靠直觉给你进行至少十条总结：你的经济条件、教育背景、社会背景、你的精明老练度、你的可信度、婚否、家庭出身、成功的可能性、年龄、艺术修养、健康状态等等。我们常听人讲：“一看他就知道他是一个什么样的人”，这就是第一印象。人们普遍喜欢那些穿着得体，为人热情、友好、宽厚、祥和的人，而厌恶那些穿着破衣烂衫，表现得缺乏修养，尖刻、好战、征服欲望强烈、自私自利的人。
译文:
This is the world of two minutes
This is the world of two minutes
◎ Source/Ingrid·Zhang
YOUTH DIGEST·GBGBG The tenth journal of“workshop”in 2008
According to the study of psychologists, it is transient for people to form the first impression of the others. Some consider it the first 40 seconds after meeting, and some the first 2 seconds. Just blinking the eyes, you must have been concluded. However, sometimes it’s the several seconds that seals one’s fate, because in the fast-paced modern society, few people will spend more time thoroughly knowing a person who has left a bad first impression and prove his ability again by observation.
People would rather to believe the first impression than the impression made afterward. Although we afford to say:“Don’t judge a book by its appearance.” Neverthless, it’s undeniable that everyone around the world, including ourselves, does like this. People judge us by our appearances and behaviors; and we also judge others by observating their looks, stature, costume, speech, tune, motion, etc.
How do we judge like this? 55% depends on your appearance, including costume, personal visage, stature and hair color; 38% self-expression, including your tone, tune, gesture, posture, motion, sitting posture, etc. Only 7% is your real content of speech. Psychologists also find that people would immediately give you 10 conclusions by intuition when you enter into a strange circumstance, they are: your economic situation, educational background, social background, level of sophistication, realiability, marital status, family background, the possibility of success, age, artistic culture, health status, etc. It is often heard that:“I know him by just a glimpse of sight.”,which is the first impression. People who are smartly dressed, zeal, friendly, lenient and kind are well popular. On the contrary, those who are in rags, lack of culture, harsh, bellicose, with strong desire for conquer and selfish are disgusted with.