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 On the other hand, such a compartmentalization of opposites leaves us with a distinctly distorted picture of reality and a restricted range of thoughts and emotions; it also affects our ability to attract and maintain relationships, not only because it is tedious and unbecoming, but also because it can easily flip, with friends and lovers being thought of as personified virtue at one time and then as personified vice at another (and back and forth).
-Splitting also arises in groups, when members of the in-group are seen to have mostly positive attributes, whereas members of out-groups are seen to have mostly negative attributes - a phenomenon that contributes to group think and, indeed, inflexible attitudes of xenophobia.<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/self-deception-ii-splitting Splitting]</ref>
+Splitting also arises in groups, when members of the in-group are seen to have mostly positive attributes, whereas members of out-groups are seen to have mostly negative attributes - a phenomenon that contributes to group think and, indeed, inflexible attitudes of xenophobia. This is intense or irrational dislike or fear of people that we consider are strangers or unfamiliar to us. <ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/self-deception-ii-splitting Splitting]</ref>
 ==Triangulation==