First impressions are always used to set the tone when meeting someone for the first time. Without the luxury of knowing the person's background, you first judge someone by how that person presents themselves and how they present themselves to you. By “appear” I mean the way a person behaves. For example, if the person seems shy and introverted, you tend to view them as shy and somewhat weak. However, if that same person comes across as outgoing, confident (but not overly so), and easy to talk to, you view them as someone you can rely on and perhaps a leader. This type of assessment (even though we all do it) is usually not always the right way to evaluate a person. Studies have been done on first impressions and how they affect you in managing trust. An experiment was conducted by the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, using a computer program and university students. (Live Science. 2009) In this study, students interacted with a computer program during seventy rounds of business transactions. These business transactions, when completed, would either allow the partnership to make money, or if your trust was betrayed, only your partner (the computer) would make money. As a result, the computer program violated the students' trust, for some, from the start of the exercise and for others, ten to thirty rounds after the start of the exercise. It was found that about seventy percent of the students betrayed at the beginning did not trust the computer (their simulated partner) at the end. However, students betrayed after ten rounds trusted the computer at a rate of ninety percent by the end of the exercise. The following excerpt from ...... middle of article ......y experience, as you get to know the person or work with them in the case of a colleague, you get a better idea of ​​what type of person they really are. However, this assignment made me realize that first impressions are lasting and could eventually have lasting effects on your personal as well as professional relationships.ReferencesFirst Impressions. (2011). Understand how first impressions affect our behaviors. Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/impress.htmlLeadership & Human Behavior. (2011). Motivation. Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadhb.htmlLive Science. (2009). Study reveals why first impressions matter. Retrieved from http://www.livescience.com/3197-study-reveals-impressions-count.htmlMaslow, A. (1970). Motivation and personality (2nd ed.). New York: Harper & Row