Sentence examples for psychological notion from inspiring English sources

While the "well-being" sense of happiness receives significant attention in the contemporary literature on well-being, the psychological notion is undergoing a revival as a major focus of philosophical inquiry, following on recent developments in the science of happiness.

(3) While it seems unlikely that any of the Roman Stoics retreated from the causal determinism and compatibilism of the Old Stoa, they were much more interested in a psychological notion of freedom.

Accepting my pregnant body has already been a challenging and complex psychological notion, so why did she feel the need to add fuel to the fire?

Many studies have shown that brain activity in a variety of areas may be attenuated when a stimulus is repeated, a phenomenon that has been linked to the psychological notion of "priming" (Henson 2003; Grill-Spector et al. 2006), and is thought to be one of the central mechanisms underlying implicit memory (Schacter et al. 2004).

For example, retrieving elements of past experiences may serve as part of the process of planning in advance for the next time related situations are encountered (Dragoi and Tonegawa, 2011, 2013), similar to the psychological notion of implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1999).

The new sense of the word owed a lot to the popularization of psychological notions of "group perception" and "groupthink".

Why, Paul reasoned, should we assume that our everyday psychological notions are any more accurate than our uninformed notions about the world?

If the philosophical and psychological notions behind the approach of "Elegies for the Brokenhearted" seem obvious or clichéd — that an individual's identity is formed by the people who surround her — its execution proves deeply, satisfyingly original.

The epistemic justification of such folk psychological explanations implicitly relies on generalizations involving folk psychological notions such as belief and desire.

This mode of combination also seems to have some intimate connection with information and some sort of non-causal information exchange which, as noted above, has some affinity with psychological notions.

Thus this possibility involves a non-psychological notion of "contextual" that contrasts with the idea that the explanatory relation can be specified in a "content-independent" way.