In One Study,white Participants Were Unconsciously Primed with an African-American

In one study,white participants were unconsciously primed with an African-American stereotype and then asked to make a judgment about a man's ambiguous behavior (without knowing his race) .In this condition,even those participants who consciously reported unprejudiced attitudes tended to rate the man as higher in hostility.How were these results interpreted?

A) Despite explicit unprejudiced attitudes, the word prime activated implicit attitudes that influenced their interpretation of his behavior.
B) Despite implicit unprejudiced attitudes, the word prime activated explicit attitudes that influenced their interpretation of his behavior.
C) Participants intentionally hid their explicit prejudice from the research team.
D) Participants intentionally hid their implicit prejudice from the research team.