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Gerald R. Adams, Paul Crane, An Assessment of Parents' and Teachers' Expectations of Preschool Children's Social Preference for Attractive or Unattractive Children and Adults, Child Development, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 224-231
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