Bellax, acting like a bellax. And so the triptych vision passes.
When a person meets you for the first time they ask themselves two questions. The answers to these two questions will have all sorts of knock-on effects for how they think about you and how they behave towards you.
Professor Susan Fiske of Princeton University has shown that all social judgements can be boiled down to these two dimensions:
1. How warm is this person?
The idea of warmth includes things like trustworthiness, friendliness, helpfulness, sociability and so on. Initial warmth judgements are made within a few seconds of meeting you.2. How competent is this person?
Competency judgements take longer to form and include things like intelligence, creativity, perceived ability and so on.
photo { Garry Winogrand, Mayor John Lindsay with New York City Police, 1969 }
