Which statement below sums up the relationship between evaluative-cognitive inconsistency and potential ambivalence?
a.They are weakly negatively correlated.
b.They are strongly negatively correlated, but only when ambivalence is measured using implicit-explicit discrepancies.
c.There can be little association between them.
d.They are strongly positively correlated, but only when looking at ambivalence in emotions.
Answer
c.There can be little association between them.
Explanation
In general, research has repeatedly showed that ambivalent attitudes present an inconsistency among attitude components that can be experienced as aversive (e.g. van Harreveld et al., 2009b) which basically explains why there is little correlation between evaluative-cognitive inconsistency and potential ambivalence
