Suppose Bob and Tom Are Asked to Rate the Attractiveness

question 42

Multiple Choice

Suppose Bob and Tom are asked to rate the attractiveness of a group of young women about their same age and a group of women about the same age as their mothers. Bob is engaged to be married, whereas Tom is dating many women. Generalizing from an experiment conducted by Simpson and his colleagues, you should expect that, in comparison to Tom, Bob would see the younger women as ________ attractive and the older women as ________ attractive.

• A) less; equally
• B) more; equally
• C) equally; more
• D) equally; less

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