The health science literature on air pollution indicates that several human characteristics affect the degree to which mortality risk affects an individual.

Quartz crystals are piezoelectric, so their mechanical characteristics can affect electronic circuits.

Electoral geography considers the way in which the physical characteristics of a territory directly affect the population and thus the election decision of these people.

Other characteristics, such as presence or lack of fluorescence, also affect the desirability and thus the value of a diamond used for jewelry.

Certain individual psychosocial characteristics will affect the interpretation of and response to a given event.

The ecological characteristics of marine fish, for example, affect the forms that privatization, industry structure and regulation can take.

The authors also examine how other personal characteristics of the chief executive affect corporate investment decisions.

Patton's characteristics will directly affect his troops' performance in the missions.

The general characteristics of cultural circumstances of post-totalitarian countries completely affected the Georgian arts too.

Second, the characteristics of individuals can affect attention and elaboration of the message (traditional or non-traditional gender role orientation).