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Originally posted by Mr. Moe
Generally your first impression of a person is really accurate. If you first categorized them as a jerk before they ever talked to you, then probably, deep down inside, they are a jerk, no matter how nice of a person they seem to be. It just always seems to work out that way in my experiences.
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I wonder how much of this is honed instinct and how much is self-fulfilling prophecy. Although we have trained intuition for figuring out the kind of people we don't like, once you decide someone is a jerk you're going to be paying more attention to aspects of the person that make them that way. If you've got a really strong intuition for this (which I don't), that's great. I'd save myself a lot of trouble if I could do that.