A Team of Researchers "Predicted That Men Who Believe That

Multiple Choice

A team of researchers "predicted that men who believe that a woman was attracted to them would act on their belief and behave relatively more flirtatiously toward the woman than would men having no such belief" (Ridge & Reber, 2002) . In this study, the independent variable is best described as ______.

A) men who believe that a woman was attracted to them
B) gender
C) belief regarding a woman's attraction
D) amount of flirtatious behavior