This document summarizes a social psychology research project conducted by five students - Tsang Hao Ren, Moy Chin Hoong, Tan Chuu Yee, Yap Kar Juen, and Yap Yong Xing. The project examined whether first impressions based on appearances are accurate. It involved showing photos of eight models to 120 participants and having them make judgments about the models' attributes. The results showed that participants' first impressions based on photos were generally inaccurate, supporting the hypothesis. The three sentence summary concludes that first impressions should not be used to judge people and can lead to prejudice.

1. SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOG
Y FINAL
ASSIGNMENT

2. Title:
First impression on
appearances
Group members:
 Tsang Hao Ren
 Moy Chin Hoong
 Tan Chuu Yee
 Yap Kar Juen
 Yap Yong Xing

3. Introduction
• Conduct a simple social psychology research
assignment.
• The relationship based on first impression on
appearances
• This project divided to two part
Which are;

4. • Part One:
 Conduct the research by creating a hypothesis,
research method, execute, collect and analysis data.
 Write a research report from all the data.
• Part Two:
 Group presentation about our research and data
collected.

5. • Theme
 First impression
• Tittle of this research;
 First impression that you give based on female and
male
- Men and women are able to judge each other
- They didn’t care about whether their potential mate is
a sinner man or hopelessly depend on their feelings

6. Social
• Social measured impressions based on variety
of traits
 Attractiveness
 Aggressiveness
 Like ability
 Trustworthiness

7. • Picture is worth a thousand words
• Different type of picture will affect people make a
wrong judgement
• First impression is considerably inaccurate
• But some of them believe first impression is
correct
• Take action to do a survey proving that first
impressions is inaccurate

8. Hypothesis
• First impression on the appearance is fairly
inaccurate
• Affect;
 One person first meet another person from a
photo
• It cannot exactly represent of the person,
depending on their first impression

9. • Finding the accuracy of first impression is
categorised as a quantitative research
• It uses statistical, mathematical or numerical
data to find the results
• The traits inference that predicted the election
outcomes was ability.

10. METHOD
&
APPARATUS

11. PARTICIPANTS
WHO ARE THEY ???
MODELS
• Outsiders
PARTICIPANTS
• 60 males VS 60 females
• Taylor’s students

12. MATERIAL & APPARATUS
MATERIALS
 Photos of 8 models
 120 sets of questionnaire
APPARATUS
 Printer
 Calculator

13. PROJECT PROCEDURES
1. Finding a topic
2. Planning the experiment
3. Analyze the data and conclude
4. Record and write a report

14. OUR EXPERIMENT
Survey forms
Models

15. Procedures
① Conforming & planning the experiment
 Conduct several meetings
 Researches
 Form hypothesis
② Finding models
 4 males & 4 females
 Outsiders
 permissions

16. ③ Setting & distributing the questionnaires
 Guess the models’ age, personality & background
 Distribute around the campus
④ Analyzing the data
 Calculate, interpret & analyze the data gathered
 Keep the data private & confidential

17. Personal Information:
1. What is your gender?
☐Male
☐Female
2. What is your age?
☐15-18
☐19-22
☐23-26
☐27-30
3. Do you think first impression is accurate?
☐Yes
☐No
Survey Questions:
1. How old do you think Model A is?
☐15-18
☐19-22
☐23-26
☐27-30
2. What do you think about Model A? (Can ✓ more than one option)
☐ Hard-working
☐ Boring
☐ Lazy
☐ Playful
☐ Friendly
☐ Joker
☐ Anti-social
☐ from rich family
☐ Sporty
☐ from average family
☐ Nerdy
☐ from poor family
☐Others: (Please specify):_________________________
MODEL A

18. ⑤ Discussing the results

19. RESULTS

20. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS
A total number of 120 participants are divided into 4 groups
27 Males who thinks that
first impression is accurate
33 Males who thinks that
first impression is inaccurate
29 Females who thinks that
first impression is accurate
31 Females who thinks that
first impression is inaccurate

21. ACCURACY OF FIRST IMPRESSION (%)
45
40
35
27 Males (thinks that first
impression is accurate)
30
25
33 Males (thinks that first
impression is inaccurate)
20
Male Females (thinks that first
29
Female
impression is accurate)
15
31 Females (thinks that first
impression is inaccurate)
10
5
0
38.36% | 42.17%
Thinks that 1st
impression is
accurate
38.41% | 36.76%
Thinks that 1st
impression is
inaccurate

22. AVERAGE PERCENTAGE OBTAINED BY ALL
THE PARTICIPANTS FOR ALL MODELS
60
50
MODEL A
40
MODEL B
MODEL C
30
MODEL D
MODEL E
20
MODEL F
MODEL G
10
MODEL H
0
MODEL A
MODEL B
MODEL C
MODEL D
MODEL E
MODEL F
MODEL G
MODEL H

23. DISCUSSION

24. HYPOTHESIS?
• The first impression on females’ & males’
appearances is INACCURATE
RESULT OBTAINED
 MATCH with hypothesis

25. ETHICAL ISSUES
• VOLUNTARY participation
• Must be informed about this survey & the
procedures
• Have the right to withdraw at ANYTIME without
ANY PENALTY

26. • PROTECTION for participants
• Being protected from physical & mental
discomfort
• E.g.
embarrassed
offended
frightened

27. • PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
• DO NOT leak out any data

28. FIRST IMPRESSION
• Create a practical implication in real life
• Judging people without knowing them in
depth
• Lead to PREJUDICE

29. BEST EXAMPLE
• Job employing
• Relationship between the applicant &
employer is usually STRANGER
• Employers will always look at the
appearances of applicants

30. Conclusion

31. -Definition of first impression
•
first thought
• mental image
• opinion
•
memory
-that someone makes on first sight. It can either be good or bad and its judgment
based only on appearances and behavior .
Occurs everyday
•
-We all know that first impressions are important, but what about those reoccurring first impression moments that are built into our days.
•
-Do you ever stop to think about how those re-occurring first impressions impact
the feel and flow of your relationships with those closest to you
•

32. Most of the participants got <50%
 Hypothesis is acceptable
The results proved that the first impression is
always WRONG
SHOULD NOT judge people by just looking at
their appearances

33. • First impression
• -important
• - miraculous .
• It takes just a quick glance, maybe three
seconds, for someone to evaluate you when
you meet for the first time..

34. References
• OWL (1995-2014) Purdue Online Writing Lab: Welcome to Purdue
OWL. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
• Mickey S. Schafer (1992-2013) Writing in Psychology/Writing the
Results Section Retrieved from
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/msscha/psych/report_results.html
• Hoss, S. (2009, July 10). First impression and your appearance:
Common myths and misconceptions. Retrieved from
http://voices.yahoo.com/first-impressions-appearance-commonmyths-3719868.html

35. • Hogg, M.A. & Vaughan, G.M. (2005). Social
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• Myers, D.G. (2007). Exploring Social Psychology.
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36. THANK YOU
&
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