Multiple Mediators of the Attitude Similarity-Attraction Relationship: Dominance of Inferred Attraction and Subtlety of Affect

Trust and respect as mediators of the other‐ and self‐profitable trait effects on interpersonal attraction

“…The 95% CIs ranged from 0.52 to 0.68, and clearly excluded the three as. That led us to further regard the three constructs as psychometrically distinct (Singh, Ng, Ong, & Lin, 2008;Singh, Yeo, Lin, & Tan, 2007).…”

“…Even within this American paradigm, there is controversy on whether there is a single MVof respect for the partner (Montoya & Horton, 2004;Singh, Ho et al, 2007;Singh, Lin, Tan, & Ho, 2008) or there are multiple MVs of affect, respect, and inferred attraction (Singh, Ng, et al, 2008;Singh, Yeo et al, 2007) for the similarity-attraction link.…”

Similarity and Liking Effects on Interpersonal Attraction: Test of the Two-Dimensional Trust-Respect Model

“…Second, trust and respect are evoked by attitude similarity and by the partner's liking for the participant as if they were similarities in issues varying in importance (Byrne & Rhamey, 1965) or different pieces of information about quality of the partner (Insko et al, 1973;Montoya & Horton, 2004). Finally, and the most novel, the more plausible causal order appears to be from trust to respect rather than parallel operation as in early multiple-mediation studies (Singh, Ng, et al, 2008;Singh, Yeo, et al, 2007) or from respect to trust as in recent studies of attitude similarity effects (Singh et al, 2015). By manipulating similarity and liking together, therefore, we have succeeded in showing that the two MVs posited by the cognitive model influence attraction equally at the hypothesized trust to respect order.…”

“…The output from PROCESS Model 4, that specifies independent operation of each MV (e.g., Singh, Ng, et al, 2008;Singh, Yeo, et al, 2007), yielded the IEs of the attitude similarity on the DV via trust (IE 1 = a 11 b 1 ) and respect (IE 1 = a 12 b 2 ) and of the partner's liking on the DV via trust (IE 1 = a 21 b 1 ) and respect (IE 2 = a 22 b 2 ). Note that a 11 and a 12 represent the effects of the IV of attitude similarity on the first MV of trust and the second MV of respect, respectively; a 21 and a 22 represent the effects of the IV of the partner's liking on the first MV of trust and the second MV of respect, respectively; and b 1 and b 2 represent the respective effects of the MVs of trust and respect when they predicted the DV along with the IV considered.…”

“…When similarity versus dissimilarity between attitudes of the partner and those of the participants was manipulated within the attraction paradigm (Byrne, 1971(Byrne, , 1997 and the multiple MVs were measured, respect was generally a weaker MV than inferred attraction (Singh et al, 2014;Singh, Ng, Ong, & Lin, 2008, Singh, Yeo, Lin, & Tan, 2007 or trust (Singh et al, 2015). More interestingly, trust originated from not only attitude similarity between two persons but also the preceding MV of respect or inferred attraction.…”