Efforts to Test the Relationship Between Polarity and Stability

question 16

Multiple Choice

Efforts to test the relationship between polarity and stability

• A) have surpassed even the highest expectations of scholars.
• B) have never been undertaken due to data limitations.
• C) have shown strong causal connections between the two.
• D) are of concern only to liberals and radicals.
• E) have been inconclusive.

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Definitions:

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