A researcher studies attitudes about involvement in foreign wars based upon individual partisanship while controlling for issue salience. She graphs the results on a line-graph and notices that the lines for salience and partisanship cross each other at a point on the chart. This indicates the presence of a(n) ______ relationship.
A) additive
B) interactive
C) spurious
D) zero-order

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When the lines for salience and partisanship cross each other, it indicates an interactive relationship, which means that the effect of one variable on the outcome depends on the level of the other variable. In other words, the relationship between attitudes about involvement in foreign wars and individual partisanship depends on the level of issue salience.

A Researcher Studies Attitudes About Involvement in Foreign Wars Based