The purpose of this research was to relate a number of personality and cognitive characteristics of the perceiver to the way in which an impression is formed from conflicting information about an object person. Instruments measuring 21 variables were administered to 101 Ss. Modes of conflict resolution determined from an impression formation task which presented 6 disparate and conflict-arousing personality traits were categorized as either integrated or unintegrated. The correlations of mode of conflict resolution with the other variables showed that the person who formed an integrated impression was most likely to be female; to have a father who had a greater amount of education; and to score high on construct fluency, thinking introversion, and cognitive differentiation. The intercorrelations among the personality and cognitive variables were also reported.
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