When an eyewitness to a crime attempts to identify a person who is a member of a different social category than he or she is, more errors in identification are likely to be made. This is probably the result of which of the following?

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Out-group homogeneity effect explains the tendency to perceive members of an out-group as more similar to each other than members of an in-group, leading to higher error rates in cross-racial or cross-social category identifications.

When an Eyewitness to a Crime Attempts to Identify a Person