Whenever we meet new people, have to make sense of something quickly, or encounter a novel situation, snap judgments are enormously quick and they rely on the thinnest slices of experience are also dome unconsciously.
Some say it takes only 30 seconds for the average person to make an assessment of individuals encountered.
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