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en-wikipedia-org-913		In-group and out-group - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2463	361	62	This process can begin by simply viewing a person's face.[9] Research indicates that individuals are faster and more accurate at recognizing faces of ingroup vs outgroup members.[10] For example, researchers in a cross-race recognition study recorded blood oxygenation level-dependent signal (BOLD) activity from black and white participants while they viewed and attempted to remember pictures of unfamiliar black faces, white faces and objects.[11] They found that participants in this study exhibited greater activity in the Fusiform Face Area (FFA),an area of the Fusiform Gyrus located in the inferior temporal cortex of the brain linked to object and face recognition, when viewing same race faces compared to other race faces[11] Lower activity in the FFA reflects a failure to encode outgroup members at the individual level rather than the categorical level, which comes at the expense of encoding individuating information.[12][13][14] This suggests out-group or unfamiliar faces may not be "faces" with the same intensity as in-group faces.[15] Prior research has also shown that the devaluation and dehumanization of outgroup members is exacerbated when the initial encoding and configural processing of an outgroup face is impeded.[16] So not only does this initial encoding process dehumanize outgroup members, it also contributes to a homogeneity effect, whereby outgroup members are perceived as more similar to each other than ingroup members.[17]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-913.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-913.txt