Question

This property is “extravagantly prized” by Amhara people per Donald N. Levine, who called modern thinking a “flight from” it and studied its use in qene (“KEN-eh”) poetry in Wax and Gold. Else Frenkel-Brunswik argued that authoritarian personalities exhibit an intolerance of this property that is a common cognitive distortion in anxiety disorders. Pauline Boss coined a term for this type of “loss,” which causes “frozen grief” by preventing emotional closure. German-speaking countries rank high on a measure of “avoidance” of this property that serves as one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. (-5[1])Social situations (-5[2])with this property (-5[1])may elicit negative interpretation bias. (-5[1])Illusory (-5[1])images with a visual form of this property cause multistable perception of reversible figures like the duck–rabbit. (10[1])For 10 points, what property (-5[1])is denied (10[1])by black-and-white thinking? (10[2])■END■ (10[11]0[9])

ANSWER: ambiguity [accept uncertainty, nuanced, unclear, lack of clarity, or synonyms; accept ambiguous images, situational ambiguity, ambiguous loss, ambiguity tolerance, intolerance of ambiguity, uncertainty avoidance, or The Flight from Ambiguity; prompt on ambivalence or ambivalent; prompt on TA or UAI by asking “what does that stand for?”; reject “risk”]
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