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- And, finally, due to their cognitively-distorted perfectionistic appraisal strategies, they enhance stress by overgeneralizing, catastrophizing, and dichotomizing (stress enhancement mechanism).

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Cutting the Costs of Perfectionism 2010

So long as the nature of power is embodied by the sword, and by the dichotomizing word, we will continue to have these divisions and dividings and conquerings.

What does feminism mean for you? « Gender Across Borders 2010

- And, finally, due to their cognitively-distorted perfectionistic appraisal strategies, they enhance stress by overgeneralizing, catastrophizing, and dichotomizing (stress enhancement mechanism).

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Cutting the Costs of Perfectionism 2010

Older people in world music -- those that might want a little more "tradition" out of Issa -- might scoff at the idea of house-inspired, electronic rhythms from African artists, but even those of us who are not so intent on dichotomizing tradition and modernity were not so impressed.

Modiba: 'AfroBlues' Performance Connects Two Continents On One Stage 2009

Immediately, I thought of "Us vs. Them," an indelible theme for many people stuck in a dichotomizing world view.

Marissa Bronfman: Iran Inside Out Shocks and Provokes at the Chelsea Art Museum 2009

In addition, the dichotomizing of "industrial age" and "information age" volunteerism seems overstated, and a weak rhetorical foil.

Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Crowdsourced! Rigby, Ben 2009

Second is the definition of socialism, which we believe has often been incorrectly formulated by falsely dichotomizing it with capitalism.

The Socialist Response 2008

Noticing when this false dichotomizing occurs is crucial, as one can thereby often see that even when a journalist appears to be critical he might very well be blindsiding us with propaganda:

Living in a Lying Nation 2008

There was a spot of roadhouse blues--one aggrieved shareholder begged Hilton Chairman Sir Ian Robinson not to sell the U.K. chain, while others said shareholders' interests would be better served by dichotomizing the company into separately quoted companies--Hilton and Ladbrokes.

Bollenbach's Hilton Closer To U.K. Namesake Takeover 2006

Therefore, the usual way of dichotomizing the responses is “very happy” vs. all others.

Poor Methodology In Anti-Divorce Study 2006