Brigham and Barkowitz (1978)had African American and Caucasian college students view a photograph set of African American and Caucasian faces.Participants were then shown a second set of faces in which they had to indicate whether they had seen each of the faces in the previous photoset.They found that participants had more difficulty recognising outgroup than ingroup faces.This is an example of

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The relative homogeneity effect refers to the tendency for people to perceive outgroup members as more similar to each other than ingroup members, leading to difficulty in recognizing individual faces from the outgroup.

Brigham and Barkowitz (1978)had African American and Caucasian College Students