{"id":549,"date":"2008-09-28T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2008-09-28T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T19:00:15","slug":"should-perceptions-matter-in-your-voting-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/28\/should-perceptions-matter-in-your-voting-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Impressions Matter In Your Voting Decision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Looking Obama In The Eyes\" href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/26\/i-can-look-you-in-the-eye-and\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to an item about John McCain&#8217;s refusal or inability to look Barack Obama in the eye during the debate. I didn&#8217;t notice this beahvior on my own because I have this bad habit of diverting my gaze when the scene is too embarassing for me to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Following the item is a discussion of whether or not this nonsense should be a decisive factor in this election.\u00a0 It probably should not be, but realistically it is.\u00a0 Does my posting this link lead to furtherance of this bad behavior?<\/p>\n<p>I listened to an unfortunate explanation of why McCain&#8217;s old military guy with experience persona would almost make you want to vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I know I am influenced by first impressions as much as anybody else. Sometimes, when I become a little self-aware, I try to fight this influence.\u00a0 Or at least I tell myself that I do. When I reflect on my experience making hiring decisions, I can think of several cases where I am glad that I fought my natural tendency to let first impressions influence me. I can also think of a case or two where I should have fought the tendency more.<\/p>\n<p>In some cultures looking another in the eye is not a good thing.\u00a0 For what it is worth, I would have to guess that the culture in which John McCain was raised would place a high value on looking people in the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to an item about John McCain&#8217;s refusal or inability to look Barack Obama in the eye during the debate. I didn&#8217;t notice this beahvior on my own because I have this bad habit of diverting my gaze when the scene is too embarassing for me to watch. Following the item is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161],"class_list":{"0":"post-549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-perceptions","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}