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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingAnd suppose the applicant is a black man. HeБЂ™s going to pick up on that uncertainty and distance, and that may well make him a little less certain of himself, a little less confident, and a little less friendly. And what will you think then? You may well get a gut feeling that the applicant doesnБЂ™t really have what it takes, or maybe that he is a bit standoffish, or maybe that he doesnБЂ™t really want the job. What this unconscious first impression will do, in other words, is throw the interview hopelessly off course. Or what if the person you are interviewing is tall? IБЂ™m sure that on a conscious level we donБЂ™t think that we treat tall people any differently from how we treat short people. But thereБЂ™s plenty of evidence to suggest that heightБЂ”particularly in menБЂ”does trigger a certain set of very positive unconscious associations. I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 listБЂ”the list of the largest corporations in the United StatesБЂ”asking each company questions about its CEO ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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