Abstract
High school students were very accurate in identifying ethnic backgrounds from color slides of Jewish, Italian, and Other females. Their accuracy extended to the identification of an Italian male but not to slides of a Jewish or Other male. With correct and incorrect Italian identifications, “black hair” and “dark complexion” were frequently checked, whereas in the Jewish identifications a “big nose” was noted often. There was no consistent pattern of facial characteristics prominent in identification of Other figures.
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