Anxiety during intergroup contact reduces people's attentional focus, preventing them from processing incoming information about individual members of an outgroup. What is one result of this?

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Anxiety during intergroup contact can lead to perceived outgroup homogeneity, where individuals perceive members of the outgroup as more similar to each other than they actually are, and as a result, fail to perceive important individual differences within the group.

Anxiety During Intergroup Contact Reduces People's Attentional Focus, Preventing Them