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- Believing first impressions are stable reduces pressure for socially anxious individuals during interactions.
- The research, led by Liad Uziel, was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- In experiments with Israeli college students, those with a fixed mindset about impressions performed better in social tasks than those with a growth mindset.
- The study notes the limitation that it focused on non-clinical participants, suggesting need for research with clinically diagnosed individuals.
