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. Social situations with this property may elicit negative interpretation bias. Illusory images with a visual form of this property cause multistable perception of reversible figures like the duck–rabbit. For 10 points, what property is denied by black-and-white thinking? ■END■
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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