Snyder and Colleagues (1977) Ran a Study in Which Mixed-Gender

Snyder and colleagues (1977) ran a study in which mixed-gender pairs had a phone conversation. Male participants were given either an attractive or unattractive photo of their conversation partner. Imagine that researchers are interested in extending the results of this study. These new researchers hope to examine the variables of competence and weight because they are interested in studying the stereotype that people who are overweight are perceived to be less competent. In this new study, participants are shown a picture of someone who is either overweight or average weight. They are then told to conduct a phone interview of the person shown in photograph. In fact, they actually conduct a phone interview of another participant (the interviewee) , who is not the person in the photo; in reality the photos shown to the participants are assigned at random. The interviewee's responses are tape-recorded for later rating by judges blind to experimental condition. Based on the et al. (1977) findings, we would expect that

A) participants conducting the phone interviews would rate "overweight" interviewees as less competent than "average" weight interviewees, but the blind judges would not be affected by weight.
B) the blind judges would rate "overweight" interviewees as less competent than "average" weight interviewees, but the participants conducting the interviews would not be affected by weight.
C) both the blind judges and the participants would rate "overweight" interviewees as less competent than "average" weight interviewees.
D) participants conducting the interviews would rate "overweight" interviewees as most competent, but blind judges would rate "average" weight interviewees as most competent.