# Should you trust your first impression?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Peter Mende-Siedlecki
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_mende_siedlecki_should_you_trust_your_first_impression)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

You can't help it; sometimes, you just get a bad feeling about someone that's hard to shake. So, what's happening in your brain when you make that critical (and often lasting) first judgment? Peter Mende-Siedlecki shares the social psychology of first impressions -- and why they may indicate that, deep down, people are basically good. \[Directed by TOGETHER: Words+Pictures for Art & Culture, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [Should you trust your first impression?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/peter_mende_siedlecki_should_you_trust_your_first_impression/8d356e2289a3), 5 min (TED's player)