Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski (1985)showed Participants a Debate Between

Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski (1985) showed participants a debate between an African-American and a European-American,and asked them to rate the debaters' skills.These researchers found that when participants overheard a confederate make a racist comment about the African-American debater,their ratings of the African-American were lower on a number of dimensions.The results suggest that

A) the power of the situation can override the activation of negative stereotypes.
B) competition often leads to prejudice.
C) stereotypes can influence the way we process incoming information.
D) stereotype activation can affect both specific and general judgments.
E) competition can activate negative stereotypes.