A Study Presented Participants with a Variety of Pokemon Characters

question 28

Multiple Choice

A study presented participants with a variety of Pokemon characters and asked them to respond to a "target" character. Some other characters were consistently paired with either positive words or pictures or with negative words or pictures. When asked to rate the Pokemon characters after the study, participants gave the most favorable ratings to

• A) the Pokemon paired with positive words or pictures.
• B) the target Pokemon character.
• C) the Pokemon paired with negative words or pictures.
• D) all the Pokemons because they're so cute.

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