After a job interview or a first date, most people wondered how it went. Confidence in own ability to judge the impression left on another person may be essential to correctly determine what image was in that job interviewer or the person of the opposite sex. To these conclusions did a study in the United States.
Psychologists at the University of Washington and Wake Forest University explained that it is crucial that people have confidence in its sole discretion to determine what steps to take to achieve your goal. Erika N. Carlson, an author, incorrectly said that judging how others see us can lead to bad decisions. A man or woman may believe that he did well on a date but the other may consider otherwise. Therefore, to call for a new meeting would be subjecting himself to a painful situation, she said.
Confidence for Success
Simin Vazir Carlson and worked with 280 students. Each had one encounter with a person of the opposite sex, then had to define the personality traits of another volunteer (prints) and believed that he or she said of her own personality (metapercepciones). In turn, the researchers asked all participants whether they had confidence in their ability to decipher the prints on the other.
We found that people who left bad impressions were, in turn, little confidence in his own trial. Therefore, a person who shows faith in his own ability to know the impression left on the other has a better chance of succeeding, “said Carlson.
Vazir explained that the key to this success is an internal system called calibration, which makes a person feel confident when he is right and insecurity make a mistake when people with poor calibration have confidence when they are wrong and insecurity when are correct.
