➤ White and Negro beer drinkers were tested on proposed package designs for a new malt liquor. Verbal measures of preference and physical measures of pupil dilation showed that both groups responded better to designs prepared for whites than to designs prepared for Negroes. The client was encouraged to select one package design to serve both markets.
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