Similarly, the global evaluation
may alter the interpretation of the meaning
or evaluation of ambiguous attributes. Thus,
if one is told that a warm and friendly person
is impetuous, a quite different set of behaviors
come to mind from those that occur when one
is told that the impetuous person is angry
and hostile. The evaluation of the attribute
impetuous may differ in the two cases, but
the difference could be a mere interpretive
one arising from the ambiguity inherent in the
term impetuous