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