A Researcher Is Interested in Interpersonal Attraction and the Factors

question 12

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,participants are then asked to rate how attractive they think the target person is.In this study,the independent variables are:

• A) similarity and interpersonal attraction.
• B) similarity and social warmth.
• C) social warmth and interpersonal attraction.
• D) similarity,social warmth,and interpersonal attraction.

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