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Why was the person × situation effect diminished in the applicant instructions condition? As noted earlier, two possible underlying mechanisms are that: (1) the response distortion that is presumably infused when asking individuals to respond to a personality inventory as if they were applying for a job could act as error which may wash out any other experimental effects, or (2) when responding to a personality inventory as if one were applying for a job, individuals may already have an implicit work frame of reference which could act to negate any frame-of reference person × situation effect. As suggested earlier, the latter mechanism seems more plausible in that personality seems to evidence greater consistency and coherence when measured in similar situations (cf. Murtha et al., 1996); thus, the decrease in the person × situation interaction may not be due to an increase in error associated with "faking" but to a decrease in non-relevant situational noise. The finding of interest was that, even with this clear press for adoption of a social role, the person × situation interaction remained significant. Need Assignment Help?