Cheryan et al. (2013) conducted a study in which undergraduate women who were not computer science majors met a role model who they were told was a computer science major. With a 2 × 2 experimental design, the role model was either a man or a woman and was either stereotypical for computer science or not stereotypical. The results indicated that ______.
A. gender of the role model mattered the most in influencing women’s interest in computer science
B. the stereotypicality of the role model had no effect
C. exposure to the stereotypical role model reduced women’s interest in computer science
D. the effects of the study lasted for 1 week but not for 2 weeks
C. exposure to the stereotypical role model reduced women’s interest in computer science
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