The phrase "abstract expectations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing theoretical or conceptual anticipations rather than concrete or specific ones.
Example: "In the realm of philosophy, we often grapple with abstract expectations about the nature of reality and existence."
Alternatives: "theoretical anticipations" or "conceptual expectations".
The new study, published online January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.
This suggests that specific pre-consultation outcome-expectations (as opposed to more abstract expectations for diagnosis, empowerment, or clinician communication/empathy) can influence a patient's self-reported satisfaction with a consultation.
These expectations are abstract in the sense that in reality, no interactions can exist in the absence of molecular mechanisms or an abiotic environment.
We prove new abstract inequalities for the expectation of the supremum norm of homogeneous Bernoulli polynomials on the unit ball of a Banach space.
Teachers and professionals, on the other hand, tend to hold more abstract, norm-related knowledge and expectations of children, unrelated to context, and without expectations of reciprocity or continuity.
Abstract: There is a limited expectation of privacy for emails sent/received on AOL.
Differences between consumers and professional forecasters There have also been some results about patterns in individual expectations over time abstracting from the cross-sectional dimension of the data.
Oftentimes it's abstract and takes you to an expectation, then comes 90 degrees to it, which is so much fun.
"Abstract: Researchers are faced with rapidly evolving expectations about how they should manage and share their data, code, and other research materials.
It may be because these debates tend to be dominated on both sides by men that they tend to be so ultimately one-dimensional, and brutally abstract, that they fail to satisfy the expectations we have for our everyday lives.
We are bombarded on a daily basis with sweeping extrapolations about the abstract "consumer": their attitudes towards climate change, their expectations of brands and businesses and their purchasing intentions.
