Study Finds Confidence Plays Major Role in Accuracy of Metaperceptions
March 18th, 2010
After first meeting another person, whether for a job interview, a date, or some other purpose, people often attempt to discover how well they’ve performed, though making an accurate assessment can prove challenging. Recently, a research team from Washington University in St. Louis and Wake Forest University conducted a study aimed at measuring how good people are at assessing the perceptions of others after making a first impression. The study was especially notable in that it incorporated a question as to whether the participants felt confident about their scorings. After a study session involving opposite-sex meetings, participants were queried about their own perceptions of success and their idea of the perceptions of their partner, and researchers found that those who reported being confident about their choices were far more likely to be accurate than those who were uncertain.
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it is clear-people who are more confident of their choices are able to perform better in the meet and can therefore be more confident of their performance(or having given a good impression to the other person).
you can be more accurate about it because you know your impression on the person has been good-simply because you were confident! confidence within can really make a person perform well and also to give a good impression to another person.this is why the importance of confidence of the self is stressed upon in the corporate arena.
Confidence will take you a very long way in life. I know that there have been times when I have probably lost out on jobs because I was not confident in the interview, and not because I did not have the right qualifications.
Most people,if not all,would want the other person to have a positive view of them but this is not always the truth.The other person will obviously not have a positive view of each person.This is because they will have a good and positive view only about a confident person. Hence confidence people may be better at predicting.
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