Malamuth's Findings on the Predictors of Naturalistic Sexual Aggression Demonstrate

question 2

Multiple Choice

Malamuth's findings on the predictors of naturalistic sexual aggression demonstrate that:

• A) all of the predictor variables he identified were significantly related to naturalistic sexual aggression.
• B) the primary causal factor in naturalistic sexual aggression is psychoticism-that is, having an antisocial personality.
• C) the Additive model of combining predictors was superior to the Interactive model in accounting for the occurrence of naturalistic sexual aggression.
• D) the presence of one predictor variable was less likely to lead to sexual aggression than the presence of multiple predictor variables.

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