If someone elicits a familiar template in your brain that says " this is X type of person" then we categorize them quickly even detrimentally. This is called the Doppelganger Bias effect. This plays out in how employees are hired, dates night invites.
In a study by Brown University, participants played a money-sharing game whose headshots shown on screen were trustworthy to the not trustworthy range as they discovered. On the next round play, the virtual headshots had been digitally morphed to resemble those original partners.
The more trustworthy the original partner was, the more that person's doppelganger was picked and the more untrustworthy, the more they were rejected.
In a study by Brown University, participants played a money-sharing game whose headshots shown on screen were trustworthy to the not trustworthy range as they discovered. On the next round play, the virtual headshots had been digitally morphed to resemble those original partners.
The more trustworthy the original partner was, the more that person's doppelganger was picked and the more untrustworthy, the more they were rejected.