In personality psychology, this concept of evocation says that certain personality traits may evoke consistent responses from the environment, particularly the social environment. So, personality plays a key role in the process of evoking emotions from others.
Evocation of Anger and Upset in Partners
This says that the behaviors of one person can evoke the emotion of anger or upset in another person. The strongest predictor of evocated anger (aka evocative anger) or upset in partners were the personality traits of disagreeableness and emotional instability, with disagreeableness being the strongest predictor.
Evocation Through Expectancy Confirmation
This says that people’s beliefs about the personality characteristics of others cause them to evoke those characteristics from others. I.e., our beliefs can evoke other people’s behaviors because we embody it first in ourselves and then the other person perceives it and then matches it. Also known as behavioral confirmation or simply as a self-fulfilled prophecy.