216 third- and sixth-grade Anglo, black, and Chicano school children indicated preferences for photographic slides of unfamiliar boys and girls from the same grade levels and ethnicities. Patterns of choice emerged, that is, photographs of some children were preferred significantly more often than others. Since pattern of choice was independent of ethnicity of subjects, however, it was concluded that attractiveness of photographic stimuli is not uniquely different among children of these ethnicities.
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