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Overview
Meeting people is the purpose of life. That first encounter will determine whether the relationship continues or whether it fades away. You only get one opportunity at making a favourable first impression and it will be fixed in time.
The focus of the unit is on the first encounter a teacher has meeting students. It highlights some of the key communication concepts and causal drivers that could be considered when evaluating and operationalising first encounters. It can be used as a precursor before doing Unit D1 on expectations.
B.1. Reading Look at this before doing the tasks to be found in No.7 in the dropdown menu. After which the Answer Key Pointers and Sources can be used to evaluate your answers to the tasks.
Think About:
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed” – Carl Jung
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression” – Will Rogers
“The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people” – Hunter.S.Thompson
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t” – Bill Nye
Materials Updates/News:
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You might want to check out the research on motivation by Frank Martela from Aalto University. An interesting Presentation gives an overview of his viewpoint.
Visakko, T., & Voutilainen, E. (2020). Language and happiness: Cultural epistemologies and ideological conflicts in Finnish online discourses on the causes of happiness. Language and Communication, 71/:March: 39–54.
Yle 21.1.26. Just one-third in Finland optimistic about children's future, survey finds.
Brule, G., & Veenhoven, R. (2014). Freedom and happiness in nations: why the Finns are happier than the French. Psychology of Well-Being. 4/17.
Yle 27.10.25. Many Finnish workplaces overly reliant on ´nonsense´ personality tests, researchers say.
Olbertz-Siitonen, M., & Siitonen, M. (2015). The Silence of trhe Finns: Exploring the Anatomy of an Academic Myth. Sosiologia. 52(4): 318-333.
Tulviste, T., et al. (2003). A silent Finn, a silent Finno-Ugric or a silent Nordic? A comparative study of Estonian, Finnish and Swedish mother-adolescent interactions. Applied Psycholinguistics. 24: 249-265.
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