2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
We get nervous when choosing our photo, because the first impression can decide whether we strike up a relationship with the person or whether we get a job. However, scientists have found that it is better to entrust the choice to a stranger, and here's why.
The researchers conducted an experiment: they selected 102 students and collected pictures from their Facebook profiles. Young people were asked to rate their own photos in points from 1 to 10 according to the following criteria: attractiveness, reliability, authority, confidence and competence. Then 160 participants, not familiar with the first group, rated the same photographs according to the same criteria. The estimates did not match. The photographs, which the students considered their most successful, were given lower marks in the second group.
This result surprised scientists. They expected that it would be easier for the participants to choose their own successful shots, but it turned out that this is not the case. Interestingly, some dating sites have already noticed and accounted for this phenomenon. For example, Tinder recently started using an algorithm that selects the main profile photo based on the number of right swipes received.
So why can't we choose a good photo of ourselves when we see our face in the mirror all our lives?
We see things that others do not know about.
First, our knowledge of ourselves distorts our perception when we try to interpret our facial expressions. For example, you know that you are a reliable person, so in your photo you automatically see yourself as such.
In addition, our perception is influenced by the effect of illusory superiority. It lies in the fact that we always value ourselves higher than other people.
There is one more aspect. We already perceive ourselves in a certain way before we look at the photograph. Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish between what we actually evaluate: our own qualities or the qualities of a person in a photograph.
You see a dozen photographs of one person, and for those who do not know you, each photograph tells its own story.
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