The proposed theory is broad enough to accommodate the reduction or elimination of prior influences by a variety of acts symbolizing separation (including cleansing). However, it does not account for stability in psychological variables, and is contradicted by widely documented stability in people's actual attitudes and behavior over time, in multiple domains, despite people's pervasive everyday acts of symbolic separation.

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不完整的基础：符号分离理论与态度和行为的普遍稳定性相矛盾

所提出的理论足够广泛，可以通过各种象征分离的行为（包括清洁）来减少或消除先前的影响。然而，它没有考虑心理变量的稳定性，并且与广泛记录的人们在多个领域的实际态度和行为的稳定性相矛盾，尽管人们普遍存在象征性分离的日常行为。