Because Karen and Reliford are both affected simultaneously by events in each other’s lives, they are ____
a. ?a good example of the contact hypothesis
b. ?interdependent
c. ?a good example of the matching hypothesis
d. ?exhibiting reciprocal causality
ANSWER:
b
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