In a Study Conducted in England by Haddock,participants Were Asked

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In a study conducted in England by Haddock,participants were asked how much they were interested in politics.Then the questionnaire continued in one of four ways.One version asked the participants to list two positive characteristics for Prime Minister Tony Blair.A second version asked participants to list five positive characteristics for the prime minister.The remaining two versions of the questionnaires asked for two or five negative characteristics.What did the results reveal for the subset of participants who were relatively uninterested in politics?

A) their ratings of Tony Blair were relatively more negative when they attempted to recall two negative characteristics.
B) their ratings of Tony Blair were relatively more positive when they attempted to recall five negative characteristics.
C) their ratings of Tony Blair were relatively more positive when they attempted to recall positive characteristics.
D) there was no link between the generation of either positive or negative characteristics and the participants' liking or disliking Tony Blair.