Sentence examples for introspecting from inspiring English sources
The word 'introspecting' is correct and usable in written English
Introspecting is the act of examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and motives. It is often used in psychology, therapy, and self-reflection. Example: After the sudden loss of her job, Sarah spent the weekend introspecting, trying to understand why she felt so lost and unmotivated.
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Present participle of introspect
As mentioned in Section 3.3 above, early introspective psychologists both asserted the difficulty of accurately introspecting conscious experience and achieved only mixed success in their attempts to obtain scientifically replicable (and thus presumably accurate) data through the use of trained introspectors.
If we report our attitudes by introspecting upon them, then much of survey research is also introspective, though psychologists have not generally explicitly described it as such.
Traditional immediately retrospective methods required the introspective observer in the laboratory somehow to intentionally refrain from introspecting the target experience as it occurs, arguably a difficult task.
You might expect a character like Charlie to dismiss the idea of counselling out of hand, yet he embraces the process of "introspecting".
Our main issue is getting our existing policies across, not introspecting on our own position.' Yet from the other side, Kennedy will be attacked this weekend by Alan Leaman, former director of strategy to his predecessor Paddy Ashdown.
"Would you like to be the kind of writer who makes a living teaching at a college, has sabbatical time in which to write huge sprawling prestige works, and spends a lot of time introspecting while also strenuously avoiding real insight into your own behavior?" she inquires impishly, flagging Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys".
Such measures are sometimes thought capable of revealing unconscious attitudes or implicit attitudes either unavailable to introspection or erroneously introspected (Wilson, Lindsey, and Schooler 2000; Kihlstrom 2004; Lane et al. 2007; though see Hahn et al. forthcoming).
Before it, I hadn't been so introspective; I'd had nothing to introspect about".
On self-shaping and self-fulfillment models of introspection, according to which introspective judgments create or embed the very state introspected (see Sections 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 below), it seems more natural to think that the target of introspection is one's current mental life or perhaps even the immediate future.
Not all such processes are introspective, however: Few would say that you have introspected if you learn that you're angry by seeing your facial expression in the mirror.
He retreated from public life for nearly two months of this spring's important budget session of parliament, going abroad to "introspect".
