The Human Resource Office Was Conducting Interviews Throughout the Day

The Human Resource Office was conducting interviews throughout the day and into the early evening. Exhausted, the interviewers did notice that they had begun to use different criteria for candidates based on sex and/or race. This is an example of

A) when stereotypes are activated automatically.
B) when stereotypes are hard to suppress.
C) disconfirming evidence is ignored.
D) how subtle discrimination persists.