Dr. Moffat measures the need for affiliation among a sample of male and female college students; in addition, she asks participants to report the number of hours they spend socializing with friends each week. She prepares a line graph of her results, with need-for-affiliation scores on the x-axis and hours spent socializing on the y-axis. One line shows the results for her female participants; the other, those for her male participants. Based on your text's discussion, how do you think the lines would look?

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The lines would likely remain more or less parallel from left to right because both male and female students' need for affiliation is expected to similarly influence the amount of time they spend socializing, without implying that one gender's social behavior is significantly different from the other's as a function of their need for affiliation.

Dr Moffat Measures the Need for Affiliation Among a Sample