You Might Look Gay - And That First Impression Sticks, Say Social Psychologists
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 13:20
in Psychology & Sociology
First impressions are so powerful that they can override what we are told about people, say social psychologists. A new paper presented today at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference in Austin says that even when told whether a person was gay or straight, participants generally identified the person's sexual orientation based on how they looked. read more