In an experiment by Van Straaten, Engels, Finkenauer, and Holland (2009), university students (both attractive and less attractive) conversed with an opposite-sex confederate whose physical attractiveness also was varied (high versus low). The study found that
a. attractive men showed more approach behavior with attractive women
b. both attractive men and women showed more approach behavior with attractive members of the opposite sex
c. attractive women showed more approach behavior with attractive men than with less attractive men
d. none of these
Ans: A
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