Conclusions made about a behavior phenomena during the identification and coding process, based on evidence and reasoning. Low-level inferences involve identifying behavior based on their physical-perceptual attributes. Higher level inferences involve decisions based on the perceived intentions of the speaker/actor (He meant it as an insult.), value judgements, (that was a bad attempt, He didn’t try hard enough), assumed consequences of actions (he went home (the speaker based their assumption on standard practice).