Alexithymia is a characteristic style of thinking and feeling involving deficits in the recognition of emotions.
For future research, we plan to analyze more detail about the characteristics of learners' thinking processes.
The ability to reframe a problematic situation in new and interesting ways is widely seen as one of the key characteristics of design thinking.
A systems-thinking skills hierarchy developed in the context of learning about natural systems places retrospection (with prediction) at the top, as one of the most advanced cognitive characteristics of systems thinking Ben-Zvi Assaraff and Orion, 2005).
In his seminal collection of essays, "The Captive Mind," Czeslaw Milosz described the intellectual's relationship to Stalinist totalitarianism: "His chief characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself".
Writing affords one of the most effective means for making thinking visible, and WTL practices can foster learning of both content and modes of thinking characteristic of disciplinary experts.
The sort of modesty displayed in passages like the above is very characteristic of Feigl's way of thinking.
While his definition captures one of the striking characteristics of the economist's way of thinking, it is at once too wide (because it would include in economics the game of chess) and too narrow (because it would exclude the study of the national income or the price level).
