I liked the ambiguous expressions people have, and also the poses".
Turkish-American social psychologist Muzafer Sherif's experiments on norm formation in the 1930s illustrated that in ambiguous situations people quickly form norms.
If my gender expression was more ambiguous, other people's acceptance of me as male, and by extension my own happiness, would be on far shakier ground.
The effect is pronounced when the smells are, in some way, ambiguous — tell people that they're smelling vomit, and they'll smell vomit; tell them that the same smell is Parmesan cheese, and they'll smell Parmesan cheese.
The underlying assumption is that, when faced with unstructured or ambiguous stimuli, people will reveal aspects of their personality in their attempt to structure the material.
Lead singer, Smith, has said that he purposely makes the lyrics ambiguous so people can draw their own conclusions.
At places where I've worked, I doubt I would have gotten my job if I didn't look so ambiguous, because people can't tell where I'm from all the time.
When he first read them, Jamie xx found Croft and Sim's lyrics to be "purposely ambiguous so people can relate to them", saying in an interview for Uncut, "I mean… if I listen carefully, I do know about their lives intimately so I can guess what they're about.
It also may be ambiguous whether people consider a certain circumstance, such as having children from a previous relationship, as a constraint keeping them from living together or as a reason to prefer to live independently.
