Contemporary research examining gender differences in conflict styles and preferred conflict resolution strategies, conclude that

a) men are more likely to leave a group that experiences continuous conflict.
b) men focus on substantive conflict issues; women focus on procedural conflict issues.
c) the conflict styles of men and women are not driven by biological sex.
d) both men and women cooperate with one another under ideal conditions.
e) women are more likely to avoid conflict than men are.


ANS: c

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