It was hypothesized that predisposition to fashionable clothing would reflect underlying personality. Data for 202 female undergraduates indicated that persons with high predisposition were significantly higher in dogmatism, higher in Machiavellian tactics, and lower in Machiavellian cynicism than were persons with low predisposition. However, the relationships were not strong.
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