How would investment model researchers like Rusbult and Martz (1995) explain why battered women often return to their abusive partners?
A) These women might be poor and have no other economic alternative.
B) Their abusive partners must reward them in other ways.
C) These women are probably in exchange relationships.
D) Their partners have battered these women's self-esteem to the basement.

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The investment model suggests that individuals may stay in relationships due to a lack of alternatives and high investment, such as economic dependency, which aligns with option A.

How Would Investment Model Researchers Like Rusbult and Martz (1995)