emotional kaleidoscope
They would twirl the emotional kaleidoscope until it gave them a picture that was comfortable.
From Washington Post article How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray by Shankar Vedantam on 31 July 2006, quoting Emory University psychologist Drew Westen [via, source]
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