2024届高考英语外刊精读：Are first impressions really accurate 学案

2024届高考备考 外刊精读 Day 51 Are first impressions really accurate 人们对他人的第一印象是否准确？ 教案 文本导读： 你善于判断他人的性格吗？本文讨论如何判断一个人的性格，以及为什么很难衡量我们是否善于判断他人的性格。 Step 1:词汇温习 good judge of character 善于判别性格的人 judgement 判断 ironically 具有讽刺意味地 lie in 在于 identify 识别 fall into 分为 distinct 截然不同的，差别明显的 read personality 读懂个性 generate 产生 identifiable 很容易识别的 accurately 准确地 interaction 互动 good target 可判读的 “好目标” reveal 透露 relevant 相关的 cue 暗示，线索 manifest 显现出来 consistent 一致的 perception 感知能力 detect 发现 utilise 利用 provide 提供 Step 2: 原文精听+精读 Are you a good judge of character? Can you make an accurate judgement of someone's personality based only on your first impression of them? Ironically, the answer lies as much in them as it does in you. One of the first people to try to identify good judges of character was US psychologist Henry F Adams in 1927. His research led him to conclude that people fell into two groups – good judges of themselves and good judges of others. Adams's research has been widely criticised since then, but he wasn't entirely wrong about there being two distinct types. More on that in a moment, but first we need to define what a good judge of character is. Is it someone who can read personality or someone who can read emotion? Those are two distinct skills. Emotions such as anger or joy or sadness can generate easily identifiable physical signs. Most of us would probably be able to accurately identify these signs, even in a stranger. As such, most of us are probably good judges of emotion. In order to be a good judge of personality, however, there needs to be an interaction with the other person, and that person needs to be a 'good target'. 'Good targets' are people who reveal relevant and useful cues to their personality. So this means 'the good judge' will only manifest when reading 'good targets'. This is according to Rogers and Biesanz in their 2019 journal entitled 'Reassessing the good judge of personality'. "We found consistent, clear and strong evidence that the good judge does ex