15 Ss were preselected as to political preference, actively supporting either a liberal or conservative political candidate and the pupils of their right eyes were photographed while viewing slides of these candidates. The white conservative preference group dilated to the slide of George Wallace and constricted to the slides of Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, while the white and Negro liberal political preference groups reacted in the opposite manner; agreement was perfect between pupillary and verbal preferences.
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