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cdr_15 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Elliot and Niesta (2008) tested the hypothesis that men would find a woman more attractive when she was surrounded by a red background than when she was surrounded by other colors. In their first study the researchers compared a woman in front of a red background and a woman in front of a white background. The possibility that in this study the white background was brighter than the red background represents which of the following?

a. A secondary variable.
b. An alternative explanation.
c. A threat to construction validity.
d. A threat to external validity.

Question 2

Which of the following types of validity is threatened when self presentation occurs?

a. Construct validity
b. Statistical conclusion validity
c. Internal validity
d. External validity