An interviewer for a large corporation receives three very poor responses from a job applicant in the first ten minutes of the interview. The applicant then provides excellent answers during the last twenty minutes of the interview. According to what we know about impression formation, the interviewer will most likely

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The initial poor responses are likely to create a negative first impression, which can be difficult to overcome even with subsequent excellent answers. This is due to the primacy effect in impression formation.

An Interviewer for a Large Corporation Receives Three Very Poor