An Experiment Was Designed to Determine If Gender of the Interviewer

question 24

Multiple Choice

An experiment was designed to determine if gender of the interviewer and the amount of eye contact by the interviewer will influence the participant’s liking of an interviewer. Thus participants were randomly assigned to groups that had either a male or female interviewer who made little, moderate, or sustained eye contact. At the end of the sessions, the participants were asked to rate their liking of the interviewer.
-If the interaction between interviewer gender and duration of eye contact were significant,

• A) the effect of eye contact on liking would differ for the male and female interviewers.
• B) the main effects will be significant, too.
• C) the main effects will not be significant.
• D) the male interviewers will be liked less than the female interviewers.

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