If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are,this would indicate that wealth and marital satisfaction are
A) causally related.
B) negatively correlated.
C) independent variables.
D) positively correlated.

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This would indicate that wealth and marital satisfaction are negatively correlated, meaning that as wealth increases, marital satisfaction decreases. It does not necessarily mean that wealth causes lower marital satisfaction, but rather that the two variables are related in a way that as one increases, the other tends to decrease.

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