Recall That Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski (1985)showed Participants a Debate

Recall that Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski (1985) showed participants a debate between an African American and a European American and asked them to rate the debaters' skills.After the debate,in one condition,a confederate made a hostile racist comment about the debaters' skills; in another,a confederate made a nonracist comment,and in a third condition,no comment was made.These researchers found that when participants overheard a racist comment,their ratings of the African American

A) were lower on a number of dimensions.
B) were higher on a number of dimensions.
C) were not affected in any way compared to the control.
D) were lower only for those participants who were racist (consciously agreed with the stereotype) .