Jenny Reads the Following Headline on an Online Article: "If

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Jenny reads the following headline on an online article: "If You're Sexist, People Will Think You're Racist, and Vice Versa." (This headline is based on a study conducted by Sanchez and colleagues, 2017.) This study found that members of stigmatized groups are threatened by prejudice directed at other stigmatized groups. Their results showed that White women can be threatened by racism, and men of color threatened by sexism, and that these perceptions made participants expect unfair treatment.
In this study, the article's headline is because .

A) justified; the researchers manipulated sexism
B) justified; the findings are significant
C) unjustified; it is impossible to manipulate sexism
D) unjustified; the researcher did not study all groups of individuals who are sexist or racist