120 college students used academic and social bipolar descriptors to rate color photographs of a male person which were varied to test the effect of ethnicity and physical disability of the photographic stimuli on evaluations. Analysis yielded significant main effects for disability and ethnicity on social ratings and a main effect for disability on academic ratings. No significant interactions were found.
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