During the beginning of the Mystery and Meaning reading, I was thinking about how people always say how important it is to make a good first impression. The first part of this article proved why that is actually so important. People take the first information that is given about you to make other assumptions about you that will round out who you are and help them to better understand you, though those assumptions might actually be very incorrect. This makes sense to me because we do not like to have unanswered questions lingering in our minds, but it is also really annoying because the first impression you make on somebody might not be representative of who you are as a person. Maybe you are having a bad day and are in a really bad mood when you meet someone for the first time and they hold onto this image of you that is not accurate because it is based on that one experience. I was reminded about a scene in The Office in which Dwight is talking about Pam and says that the first time they met he did not like her and ever since then she’s been lovely and easy to work with, but he still hates her regardless. I wonder to what extent that could actually be true for someone. After that section of the reading, I am wondering how long that first impression actually lasts\/if you can ever get rid of it completely.<\/p>\n
Also throughout the Mystery and Meaning reading, I was thinking about what it means for female leaders. It was talking a lot about how if we do not have the full story on someone or something we fill in some of that information based on what we have seen in the past. But, in the past, we have had very few females leaders so it would probably be harder to just fill in some of this missing information. I was thinking about implicit leadership theories and the prototype matching hypothesis, which both have historically negative impacts on female leaders because women do not match what most people are used to seeing in the past and thus make it more difficult for them to hold leadership positions.<\/p>\n
Every time I read about the Stanford Prison Experiment I find it to be really scary. It illustrates that you can never truly know how you will act in any given situation that you have not encountered before. It is always easiest to think that you will always do the right thing, but that is by no means ever guaranteed. Though you might have a strong moral compass, you can still be pushed to extremes that cause you to act in a manner outside of those morals. It’s scary to think that, despite how well you think you know yourself, you cannot even truly predict your own behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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