Impression formation and word combination in sentences.

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Explores the problem of predicting the evaluative ratings of men described by sentences which fit the frame, "The adjective man verbs noun" (e.g., "The vicious man harms beggars"). 87 male undergraduates served as Ss. A general additive model which assumes that adjectives and predicates combine additively accounts for 98% of the variation in M ratings. The adjective and verb main effects each account for about 37% and the Verb (V) * Object (O) interaction accounts for 22% of the variation. A single multiplicative term accounts for the bulk of variation due to V * O interaction. Several regression models based on the evaluative ratings of isolated sentence components are applied to both the averaged data and to the data of individual Ss. Dimensions of individual differences are also investigated. (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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