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 were lower on a number of dimensions.The results suggest that

A) competition can activate negative stereotypes.
B) stereotype activation can affect future judgments.
C) the power of the situation can override the activation of negative stereotypes.
D) visual cues to distinctive characteristics activate stereotypes.