If you’re all hung up about making a good first impression, chances are you’ll make a bad one. Unless you’re a natural charmer–in which case you would make a good first impression without even ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University reveals that people with social anxiety, a common condition marked by fear or discomfort ...

I doubt I’m the only one who grew up hearing, “Make sure you make a good first impression.” At the time, I probably wondered whether that was my parents just being persnickety. It turns out they were ...

First impressions happen in seconds, and what you wear plays a huge role in how people see you. Whether you're meeting ...

It turns out the old adage, “You never get a second chance to make a great first impression,” may not be true after all. There’s a great deal of pressure around making a positive first impression–and ...

Daters are more likely to choose partners with whom they share more eye contact. Mutual eye contact predicts mate choice ...

First impressions can play a big role in your love life, workplace and anywhere else you meet people. But how do we form them? And are you really making the kind of impression you want to make? This ...

It's too bad that the person who came up with the job title "Director of First Impressions" didn't trademark the term and receive the recognition they deserved. That person understood that a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serenity Gibbons is a business consultant who covers entrepreneurs. This article is more than 7 years old. Every entrepreneur ...

We’ve all heard the expression, “you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.” In fact, research has indicated that within the first seven seconds of meeting someone, we draw conclusions ...

Even though we were taught not to “judge a book by its cover,” we all do it—especially when meeting someone for the first time. Most of us would like to believe that we revise those snap judgments ...