A Researcher Is Interested in Interpersonal Attraction and the Factors

question 16

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in interpersonal attraction and the factors that affect it. She designs a study in which she looks at the effect of similarity and social warmth on interpersonal attraction. Participants in her study meet a target person who either is or is not similar to the participant (the similarity variable) and who is either friendly or aloof (the social warmth variable) . After interacting with the target person under these conditions, participants are then asked to rate how attractive they think the target person is. In this study, the dependent variable is:

• A) similarity.
• B) social warmth.
• C) interpersonal attraction.
• D) all of the above.

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