A Manager Must Choose Between a White Job Applicant and a Black

A manager must choose between a White job applicant and a Black job applicant. The two applicants have equal qualifications, but those qualifications are mixed: Both are high on some desirable characteristics but low on others. The theory of aversive prejudice would predict that the manager would

A) choose the White applicant because they could rationalize their rejection of the Black applicant on the basis of the applicant's negative characteristics.
B) choose the Black applicant out of concern that choosing the White applicant would make them appear to be prejudiced.
C) choose the Black applicant because the manager's egalitarian values would lead them to perceive the Black applicant's positive characteristics as more positive than the White applicant's positive characteristics.
D) use some random procedure to choose between the two applicants because they are equally qualified.