Path Analysis of Attitudinal, Dispositional, and Situational Predictions in Impression Formation

Abstract

Interpersonal predictions of 126 male subjects and 159 female subjects were analyzed for inferential development using a path model. Task attraction was the predominant extended inference; character impression served as the intermediary dispositional inference. The paths for this development differed for males and females.

The somatic marker as a “short cut” to verbal immediacy

“…found significant relationships between interpersonal attraction and prestige. In a further study, using path analysis, Powell, Hill, and Hickson, (1980) found that attitudinal homophily was predictive of character and sociability (credibility), which in turn, was predictive of task attraction. their brains had been removed.…”