Victims of ‘first impression bias' on social media
Published on: Mon, Jul 14, 2025
By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: A frog's motherly love? Kota Kinabalu: First impression bias easily cause people to err. So beware, no fun to be completely wrong, superficial, unfair, even fall dire victim of misjudgement because of disproportionate influence of superficial, grossly limited, incomplete first impression. Cognitive bias is certainly worth the wisdom of knowing it is real and costly, because if an error of judgement is extreme enough, it can work like a fatal flaw. This writer got thinking about this very common error in judgement after architect Datuk Ho Jia Lit sent him a very intriguing frog picture. An architect is not trained on frogs, neither is a journalist. So this writer's first impression agreed with what Ho wondered about, in his text forwarded as follows: Subscribe or LOG IN to access this article.
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