Carmine is conducting a study examining intelligence and respect for others. She has read through the literature and these two variables do not theoretically overlap. She wants to make sure that the measures she is using to examine each variable do not correlate with each other. What type of validity is she concerned with?
A) face validity
B) content validity
C) convergent validity
D) discriminant validity

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Carmine is concerned with discriminant validity, which assesses the extent to which measures of different constructs are unrelated or distinct from each other. In her case, she wants to ensure that the measures for intelligence and respect for others do not correlate, indicating they are measuring different constructs.

Carmine Is Conducting a Study Examining Intelligence and Respect for Others