This week for my discussion section assignment, I chose to write about impressions as self-fulfilling prophecies. An impression is self-fulfilling when behaviors we have toward people reflect our impressions of that person , no matter how accurate or inaccurate, and that person either seems to be acting in ways similar to our impressions because we want our impressions to be right, or they actually genuinely react in ways that are congruent to our original impressions because of our behaviors towards them. Looking back on one situation in my life where I was meeting a friend of mine's boyfriend, who was from out of state, for the first time, I think this concept came into play, but I am only realizing this now, years later. My impression of him was ruined after he told me and another of my good friends that we should leave Dakota's house and we really shouldn't be there even though she was in a state of emotional distress and we obviously being friends of hers for years before Chris even came into the picture, thought we were more needed than he at the time. But looking back it is possible that he acted that way and said those things because maybe we didn't like him much to begin with, and his actions were only stemming from our behavior based on our first impression of him even if it was kind of an unconscious process.  The impressions we form of people both on the conscious and unconscious level of our minds influence our behavior towards them. Without a doubt I think my first impression of Chris was not a very good one, and this probably caused me to not engage in conversation with him and who knows I may even have thrown a few not so nice looks his way. Not only did the impression influence my behavior towards him but it influenced his behavior towards me which in turn only reinforced my negative impressions of him. And the sad part is all of it could probably have been avoided if we would have got to know each other for who we really are, not just who thought the other person was before we made our judgements.