A police psychologist has discovered that the higher a criminal's score on a test of hostility, the lower the individual's score on a victim-empathy test. The correlational relationship between hostility and empathy is said to be:

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A negative correlation means that as one variable increases, the other decreases. In this case, as hostility scores increase, empathy scores decrease.

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