Fast. Really fast. A recent study conducted by psychologists shows most of us should be able to know if a person is gay or not in about 100 milliseconds. Imagine, in just 1/10 of a second, people on average can detect the sexuality of a person with up to 70% accuracy. Talk about first impressions.

It all started in 1994, when curious psychologists Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal did a ground-breaking research. They showed 2-second video clips of professors teaching to several people, and asked them to write their opinions about the professors’ teaching abilities. Remarkably, what they wrote were quite similar to evaluations written by actual students at the end of a semester. The results led psychologists to begin questioning what else people might detect in a glance.
Read the rest of this entry >>