In all honesty, do you judge others by their outer appearances at first glance?

Yes, and you're a liar if you say you don't.

(So that makes you a liar AND superficial. Welcome to humanity, old chum!)
That question though, is irrelevant, because it's pretty much an instinctual response. It's what you do AFTER that initial impression that's important, and you give yourself ample time to overcome that first impression.

[And go F yourself if you think first impressions, last. ano kami, deodorant?]

If you have the time/opportunity/context to get to know that person (ie: New coworker, classmate), are you smart enough to overcome that first, animalistic judgement? And is it only pleasing visuals that compel a person to delve deeper?

I don't know.

If you don't have time to spend getting to know someone (ie: stranger on the street passing you by), do you have at least enough sense to add a grain of salt to your impression, whatever it may be, because you KNOW that visuals, as striking as they are, aren't everything?

The real question is whether or not we can, as animals, overcome instinct. Ideally, I'd say yes... but our track record pretty much sucks. I think it's a question of time, when it comes to the human animal... on the short term, we can only rely on our senses to appraise others, ie: sight, sound, smell mostly... and those senses totally generalize reality.
On the long term though, I think we're very much capable of ascending our unreliable senses and of using other, more accurate tools to evaluate our fellows. Even still though... some of us still fall back on the senses, for lack of time or care. It's unfortunate.


I just relieved my ennui.