introspection Meaning & Definition

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  • This bar seems to halt all forward movement: it stands suspended, as if in a moment of self-consciousness or introspection.

  • This is not simply a question', he observes, 'of more emotion, more introspection, or more agonising.

  • It is simply the avowal of introspection, just as one might report imagining anything else visual, tactile, or auditory.

  • Introspection became allied to elitism in the debates around who could qualify as a superwoman.

  • Far more important than bias, however, is that interactions are largely governed by nonconscious mechanisms, unavailable to introspection.

  • Like non-war neurasthenia, wartime cases of psychological disturbance lingered because of weak will or a tendency to morbid introspection.

  • Once these questions are put, regret may be studied and understood rather than simply postulated on the basis of introspection.

  • This lack of experience may have inhibited decentring, introspection and the development of trust, all of which are necessary precursors to empathetic attunement.

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