The Bachelor star Chris Soules admits his first impressions of some of the bachelorettes may not have turned out to be accurate.

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"The criteria that I used for almost all the show is kind of just going with my gut feeling, you know, and using that. It was really the only thing I counted on most of the time, because there's so many great women and so many tough decisions. But at the end of the day, you just have to go with your gut," Soules told Reality TV World in a Thursday interview.

"And that's what I used on the first-impression rose, but it was a culmination of a lot of things -- coming out of the limo, who I really felt I connected with; and then the five minutes we get to talk, if I felt that instant chemistry; and all of those things put together. And then you have to make a gut decision and move forward with it."

Soules then confessed his initial instincts might not have served him well as the season progressed.

"Going forward with that, honestly, it's funny because I remember waking up that next morning after the first Rose Ceremony -- I went to bed in the morning and woke up probably near lunch time -- thinking and my head was spinning with all the incredible women that I just met," said the 33-year-old farmer and businessman from Arlington, IA.

"[I had] a Top 3, and that Top 3 was completely -- by the end -- and totally different than what I actually had imagined in my mind after I met the women. So, yeah, I learned some things and felt different things as I moved forward with the women."

The Bachelor went on to say that he misjudged some of the bachelorettes.

"In some cases, [I] learned that they maybe weren't who I thought they were, or just feelings weren't there or the chemistry wasn't there as I got to know them. So, yeah. There's a lot of things that changed after that first night, definitely," he told Reality TV World.

The Bachelor's nineteenth season finished taping in late November and is set to premiere Monday, January 5 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.
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Elizabeth Kwiatkowski is Associate Editor of Reality TV World and has been covering the reality TV genre for more than a decade.