'Projective' tests assume personality is primarily unconscious and assess an individual by how he or she responds to an ambiguous stimulus, like an ink blot.

It has been shown that anxious individuals rend to interpret ambiguous stimuli in line with a threatening interpretation if one is available.

These result indicate that interpretation of ambiguous stimuli depends on similar processes as those elicited for known objects.

In psychology, a projective test is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts.

According to Sanders Critical Design involves also probes as "ambiguous stimuli that designers send to people who then respond to them, providing insights for the design process."

An ambiguous stimulus may be translated into multiple percepts, experienced randomly, one at a time, in what is called "multistable perception".

Projective tests assume personality is primarily unconscious and assess individuals by how they respond to an ambiguous stimulus, such as an ink blot.

UK research has suggested that broader social anxieties about the pace and direction of social change may shift levels of tolerance to ambiguous stimuli in the environment.

This threat vigilance system is evolutionarily biased to interpret ambiguous stimuli as dangerous, because "erring on the side of caution" increases survival chances.

Research shows that we use our general knowledge of people and events to help us interpret ambiguous stimuli to remember things that happen in our lives.