The 30-Second-Sale : snap impressions of a retail sales person influence consumers decision making

First impressions and judgements about other people may be formed very quickly and often unwittingly and may also be long-lasting. These judgments (in its content-filtered form called thin-slices) affect consumer decision making when interacting with a sales person. Thin-slice judgments are very accurate in predicting the outcome of human interactions.

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