ABSTRACT
Americans live in an interesting culture. We are a wary bunch, perhaps because the earliest pages of our history are written by individuals run out of their homelands due to their beliefs. Perhaps our reluctance to trust comes through our British roots: “First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions.”1 Wherever our wariness comes from, it is most succinctly stated in the more well-known phrase: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Blow your first chance and it’s over.
