Word and Colleagues (1974)conducted a Study Examining the Influence of Racial

question 92

Multiple Choice

Word and colleagues (1974) conducted a study examining the influence of racial stereotyping on job interview performance.This study demonstrated that

• A) a job interviewer's nonverbal behavior is not influenced by an applicant's race, though verbal behavior shows signs of self-fulfilling prophecy.
• B) job interviewers who are trained with explicit instructions to treat job applicants the same way regardless of race are able to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy.
• C) a job interviewer's behavior can create a self-fulfilling prophecy that leads applicants of a particular race to objectively perform more poorly than other applicants.
• D) job applicants who are negatively stereotyped are more sensitive to nonverbal cues during the course of an interview and therefore more likely to fall victim to the self-fulfilling prophecy than are other applicants.

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