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As we evaluate and interpret experience, the meaning we see in it is influenced by individual affectors—factors that color our responses—including culture, roles, biases, present emotional state, past experiences, and physical limitation or capabilities. If you are looking for a fight, you may perceive an insult. If you are hungry, you may smell food. If you are looking for a date, you are more likely to interpret a statement as a flirtation. The horn and halo effects come into play as affectors shape our perceptions.²⁶

Among other variables influencing the interpretation/evaluation process are the degree of involvement we have or expect to have with a person, the knowledge we have relative to the person’s intentions, our feelings about ourselves in relation to the other person, and the assumptions we make about human behavior in general and this person’s behavior in particular.