Smart objects "bleeding" colours when resized

Bit of a strange one, this. In Photoshop CS6, whenever I create a smart object with the intention of resizing it, whenever I shrink it, where one flat colour collides with another, it creates a really ugly "bleed" effect -- kind of the same effect you get when you take a small image and try to make it larger:
I've zoomed in on this particular part to show just how bad it looks. Particularly on the upper part of the forearm, see how it's got a sort of white "halo" before the black outline? It now looks like I drew a slightly darker outline around all the levels of shading, and it looks really bad, almost like a raised/chiselled effect.
Obviously it's not as noticeable when you zoom out, but it's definitely there. If it helps, I've noticed that the same thing happens when I just resize the whole image using "bicubic automatic", but when I select "bicubic / anything else", the bleed does not occur. It kind of makes the once-incredibly-useful smart object tool kind of pointless now.
This never happened with any other prior version of Photoshop which had smart objects, and I've only just got hold of CS6 a few days ago, so if there's a really obvious preference/setting or something that I'm missing, please let me know
Thanks in advance x

Smart Object resizing uses the image interpolation method that's set in Preferences > General. The default has changed from CS5 to CS6, and many people do not like the change.
CS5 is set to Bicubic by default.
CS6 is set to Bicubic Automatic by default. Automatic results in Bicubic Sharper when reducing pixel dimensions, and Bicubic Smoother when increasing pixel dimensions. Bicubic Sarper tends to oversharpen and create ugly artifacts such as the halo that's plagueing you.
Set the preference in CS6 to plain Bicubic to make it like CS5.
Also in CS6, Free Transform now has an independent control for interpolation when pixel layers are targeted. It is set to Bicubic Automatic by default, so set that to plain Bicubic, too.

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