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In the Byrne and Clorc classically conditioned model of evaluative responses, implicit affective responses mediate evaluative or interpersonal attraction responses. It was hypothesized that as the internal affective state of subjects is made more positive or more negative, the attraction responses toward a stranger would vary accordingly. The effect of induced affect on interpersonal attraction was investigated in an experiment having a 3 X 2 factorial design, with 3 levels of attitude similarity and 2 induced affective states, elation and depression. As hypothesized, in an analysis of variance, both main effects were found to have a significant (p < .001) influence on attraction scores. With attraction as the dependent variable and attitudinal similarity and Depression scores as independent variables, a multiple correlation coefficient of .80 was obtained (p < .0001).

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In two experiments it was hypothesized that affective states are significantly better than affective traits in predicting interpersonal attraction responses. In Experiment I, the subjects were pretested with several measures of affective traits, and 2 months later they completed these same affective measures in their state form, before and after evaluating a stranger having either .17 or .83 proportion of attitudes similar to their own. In Experiment II, the subjects followed the same procedure, except all of the measures were taken in the same experimental session. Of the five measures of affect significantly correlated with attraction in both experiments, four of the state measures were significantly superior to their corresponding trait measure.