Studied the effect of personality dispositions on the judgment of persons described by inconsistent stimuli. Ss were 32 positive- and 32 negative-disposition undergraduates (as measured by the words Ss used to describe "people in general" on a checklist). Ss rated the likableness of persons described by highly likable and dislikable traits under conditions either favoring or discouraging discounting of inconsistent stimuli. Ratings of the importance of each trait in a set for the likableness judgment were also obtained. As predicted, Ss discounted the importance of disposition-incongruent traits, but only under conditions favoring discounting. The effect of importance discounting was to increase disposition effects on likableness ratings over equal-weighting conditions. It is concluded that disposition affects the pattern of stimulus weighting in the integration process, and that differential weighting of inconsistent stimuli enhances the effect of preevaluative response tendencies. Findings are supportive of information integration theory. (23 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)