The phrase "personal skepticism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an individual's doubts or questioning attitude towards a particular idea, belief, or claim.
Example: "Her personal skepticism about the effectiveness of the new policy led her to conduct further research before accepting it."
Alternatives: "individual doubt" or "private skepticism."
I'm personally inclined to agree with the GG's personal skepticism of a cosmos characterized by a deity who routinely violates the order of nature.
Despite Balkenende's personal skepticism about bringing Turkey into the EU, he and Bot (a former Ambassador to Turkey) worked hard to ensure that Turkey got its date to start accession talks with the EU during the Dutch presidency, and want to see the agreement they helped negotiate successfully implemented.
General Dempsey, who has long made plain his personal skepticism about the entire enterprise, said at the Senate hearing, "It won't surprise you to know that we will have not only an initial target set but subsequent target sets should they become necessary".
But coming back to my own personal skepticism: While watching the program on gluten, I found myself truly convinced that this was indeed no mere trend or fad, but a real disease of epidemic proportions -- a whopping 600,000 people in France, according to this show, suffer from some form of gluten intolerance, more or less serious, more or less detectable.
Despite his personal religious skepticism (he was attracted to religion but remained agnostic, never really reconciling the truths of science and religious faith), he regretted that his countrymen were apparently throwing in their lot with the machine worshippers.
Darwin would surely have frowned on the suggestion that, because naturalistic explanations are rarely obvious, skepticism about science is justified (a move that has been called the argument from personal incredulity).
The themes of his early poetry — alienation, skepticism, personal salvation through romantic love — struck all the keynotes of our journey from Mao's little red children to bitterly disillusioned adults.
It is a reference to his incessant running but also a testament to perseverance through youthful frailty, cultural insecurity, European skepticism, personal disappointment and a diet that was once more eye of newt than essence of Emeril.
We analyze three strategies aimed at supporting acceptance and surmounting political, organizational and personal distrust or skepticism: participatory design, advanced collaborative tools inducing cognitive absorption, and end-user communities of practice.
Ms. Mitchell's original folk-rock songs upheld that mythology while analyzing it with an unprecedented personal candor and deep skepticism.
And so a growing group of economists are now shedding the profession's traditional skepticism about personal interviews and are scouring survey data in an effort to explain the contradiction.
