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The Similarity-Attraction Link: Sequential versus Parallel Multiple-Mediator Models involving Inferred Attraction, Respect, and Positive Affect

Ramadhar Singh, Fuwei Chen and Duane T. Wegener
2014
Working Paper No
455
Body

The authors tested the hypothesis that the attitude similarity effect also spreads sequentially through the mediators of positive affect, respect, and inferred attraction to interpersonal attraction. In Experiment 1, participants received information about a partner's similar or dissimilar attitudes and reported only one of the three mediators before attraction. The similarity-attraction link was mediated by positive affect or respect but more strongly by inferred attraction. In Experiment 2, the three mediators were measured in six different orders. Results falsified parallel and combined parallel-sequential multiple-mediator models and two of the fully sequential multiple-mediator models but supported four fully-sequential models that were consistent with the affect-centered and affect primacy hypotheses.

Key words
affect primacy, appraising acceptance, attraction, multiple-mediation, sequential mediation, similarity
WP_No._455_0.pdf (271.92 KB)

The Similarity-Attraction Link: Sequential versus Parallel Multiple-Mediator Models involving Inferred Attraction, Respect, and Positive Affect

Author(s) Name: Ramadhar Singh, Fuwei Chen and Duane T. Wegener, 2014
Working Paper No : 455
Abstract:

The authors tested the hypothesis that the attitude similarity effect also spreads sequentially through the mediators of positive affect, respect, and inferred attraction to interpersonal attraction. In Experiment 1, participants received information about a partner's similar or dissimilar attitudes and reported only one of the three mediators before attraction. The similarity-attraction link was mediated by positive affect or respect but more strongly by inferred attraction. In Experiment 2, the three mediators were measured in six different orders. Results falsified parallel and combined parallel-sequential multiple-mediator models and two of the fully sequential multiple-mediator models but supported four fully-sequential models that were consistent with the affect-centered and affect primacy hypotheses.

Keywords: affect primacy, appraising acceptance, attraction, multiple-mediation, sequential mediation, similarity
WP_No._455_0.pdf (271.92 KB)