Which is one of the factors Insko and his colleagues have identified as a potential cause of the discontinuity effect?

a.  Members are embarrassed to be display hostility before other group members.
  b.  Members of interacting groups support a norm of tolerance for the outgroup.
  c.  People do not wish to appear greedy, particularly if the rest of the group is willing to share.
  d.  People expect intergroup relations to be more unfriendly and aggressive.
  e.  People do not consider the members of the other group to humans.


  d.  People expect intergroup relations to be more unfriendly and aggressive.

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