Psychological effects of interpersonal communication: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder because of the halo effect.

The primacy effect has a greater impact on people in interpersonal communication and is an important term in communicative psychology. The impression left by people in their first interaction forms and occupies a dominant position in the other person's mind. This effect is the primacy effect.

Primacy Effect

What we often say "leaving a good impression on others" generally refers to the first impression, and the role of primacy effect exists here. Therefore, in social activities such as making friends, recruiting, and job hunting, we can use this effect to show people an excellent image and lay a good foundation for future communication. Of course, this is only a temporary behavior in social activities, and deeper interactions require your hardware to be complete. This requires you to strengthen your quality in speech, behavior, cultivation, etiquette and other aspects, otherwise it will lead to another negative effect, that is, the recency effect.

Recency effect

The recency effect is the opposite of the primacy effect. It refers to the impression left by the last meeting in a relationship. This impression will also remain in the other person's mind. a long time. For friends whom you haven’t seen for many years, the deepest impression in your mind is actually the scene when parting; a friend always makes you angry, but when talking about the reasons for anger, you can only mention two or three reasons. This is also a kind of The manifestation of recency effect. Make use of the recency effect, distinguish yourself from your friends, and give them good wishes. Your image will be beautified in his heart. It is possible that this kind of beautification will affect your life, because you may become a "halo" figure, which is the halo effect.

Halo effect

When you have a good impression of someone, it will be difficult to feel his shortcomings, as if there is a halo surrounding him, and your Psychology is the halo effect. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". When lovers fall in love, it is difficult to find the shortcomings of the other person. They think that everything about him is good and everything he does is right. Even the shortcomings that others think are shortcomings are in the other person's eyes. It doesn't seem to matter, this is a manifestation of the halo effect. The halo effect has a certain negative impact. Under this psychological effect, it is difficult for you to distinguish between good and bad, true and false, and it is easy to be taken advantage of. Therefore, in the process of socializing, we must "not have the intention to harm others, and the intention to guard against others", and have a certain sense of defense, that is, people's defensive psychology.

Defensive mentality

When two people are alone, we will have some defensive mentality from time to time; when there are many people, you will feel that you don’t have your own space and whether your belongings are safe. Your diary is always locked tightly for fear of others taking away your secrets. For these, you need to be on guard. This defensive mentality will play a negative role in the communication process, and it will hinder normal communication.