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

36 Pages Posted: 30 Apr 2014

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Ramadhar Singh

Ahmedabad University (AU)

Chen Fuwei

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Duane Wegener

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Psychology

Date Written: March 1, 2014

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

Suggested Citation

Singh, Ramadhar and Fuwei, Chen and Wegener, Duane, The Similarity-Attraction Link: Sequential Versus Parallel Multiple-Mediator Models Involving Inferred Attraction, Respect, and Positive Affect (March 1, 2014). IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 455, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2431151 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2431151

Ramadhar Singh (Contact Author)

Ahmedabad University (AU) ( email )

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Chen Fuwei

National University of Singapore (NUS) ( email )

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Duane Wegener

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Psychology ( email )

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Columbus, OH 43210
United States

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