Module 03 · Impression Formation印象形成
How Do You Decide If You Like Someone?喜好判断与印象形成
Introduction to Impression Formation 引言：印象形成简介
If you ask people how they decide whether they like someone or not, you will often hear answers like “I just do” or “It just feels right.” Put another way, people often don’t have insight into the processes that result in liking another person.
如果您问人们他们是如何决定是否喜欢某人的，你通常会听到像“我就是喜欢”或“感觉就是对了”这样的回答。换句话说，人们往往没有洞察到导致喜欢另一个人的过程。
Realize, however, that deciding we like someone is several steps down the line after we meet them. So, let’s look at an earlier stage of meeting a new person: deciding what that person is like.
然而，要意识到我们决定喜欢某个人是在认识他们之后好几个步骤的事情。所以，让我们看看认识新人的早期阶段：决定那个人是什么样的。
Reflection Activity 反思活动
Think about and then describe, to the best of your ability, the mental processes that occur when you’re trying to decide what someone is like. What steps do you take or what factors do you consider when trying to decide what someone is like?
思考并尽可能详细地描述，当你试图判断某人的性格时，所发生的心理过程。在尝试判断某人的性格时，你采取了哪些步骤或考虑了哪些因素？
Oftentimes, people have a hard time answering questions like this because they force people to think carefully about mental processes that largely occur automatically. Fortunately, psychologists have put a lot of time into researching what really goes on inside people’s heads when they meet a new person and try to decide what that person is like—a process called impression formation. We’re going to be focusing on the results of that research in this section of the course.
经常，人们在回答这类问题时会遇到困难，因为这迫使他们仔细思考大量自动发生的心理过程。幸运的是，心理学家投入了大量时间研究当人们遇到新人并试图判断那个人是什么样的——这个过程被称为印象形成。在本课程本节中，我们将关注这项研究的结果。