Your Textbook Describes Findings from a Number of Studies That

question 4

Multiple Choice

Your textbook describes findings from a number of studies that asked participants to rate how superficial or meaningful they found their same-sex interactions and opposite-sex interactions. Which of the following most accurately represents the findings of these studies?

• A) Women rate their opposite-sex interactions as significantly more meaningful than do men.
• B) Women rate their opposite-sex interactions as less meaningful than their same-sex interactions.
• C) Men rate their opposite-sex interactions as more meaningful than their same-sex interactions.
• D) Men rate their opposite-sex interactions as less meaningful than their same-sex interactions.

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