How would investment model researchers like Rusbult and Martz (1995) explain why battered women often return to their abusive partners?
a. These women might be poor and have no other economic alternative.
b. Their abusive partners must reward them in other ways.
c. These women are probably in exchange relationships.
d. Their partners have battered these women's self-esteem to the basement.
Answer: A
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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