dichotomies
(noun)
Two elements, often mutually exclusive, that stand in juxtaposition to one another.
Examples of dichotomies in the following topics:
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Cognitive Biases as a Barrier to Decision Making
- By categorizing individuals in terms of four dichotomies—thinking and feeling, extroversion and introversion, judging and perception, and sensing and intuition—the MBTI provides a map of the individual's orientation toward decision making.
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Types
- The MBTI sorts psychological differences into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies, resulting in 16 possible psychological personality types.