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Mar
Which choice best describes data from the graph that support the researchers’ conclusion?
Alessandro Nai et al. presented study participants with vignettes about fictive political candidates, portraying them as embodying personality trait widely considered admirable (e.g., agreeableness) or one considered ignoble (e.g., cynicism). A survey recorded participants’ ratings of the candidates’ likability and showed that across participants, ignoble-trait candidates were less likable than admirable-trait candidates. However, when the researchers factored in the participants’ own personality-trait scores on a scale of 1 (least ignoble) to 7 (most ignoble), they concluded that this relative ranking of candidates persisted except among the participants with high ignobility scores.
