New Zealanders of Chinese descent and European descent were asked to quickly classify faces with blended Chinese and Caucasian physical features.Compared with observers of Chinese descent,observers of European descent more readily classified ambiguous faces as
A) Caucasian.
B) Chinese.
C) Australian.
D) American.

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Observers of European descent are more likely to classify ambiguous faces as "other" than their own group, in this case, Chinese, due to the out-group homogeneity effect where individuals tend to perceive out-group members as more similar to each other than they do in-group members.

New Zealanders of Chinese Descent and European Descent Were Asked