This reflected a tendency, conscious or not, to think that Europe was different.
Inevitably, when someone dies in controversial circumstances and the closest witnesses are official – whether police or armed forces – there can be a tendency, conscious or unconscious, to put a gloss on events.
"Or at least in publishing's case, what is at work is the tendency – conscious or unconscious – for executives, editors, marketers, sales people and reviewers to work with, develop, and recommend books by and about people who are like them".
Broad gestures will always risk casualty, but D'Aguiar's plaintive epic rhetoric, despite a tendency towards self-conscious dallying, strides through predicament and woe to place love as the only motivational energy for salvation.
In his preface to Pragmatism (1907), James commented that the pragmatic movement was the focal expression of a number of philosophical tendencies suddenly becoming conscious of themselves and of "their combined mission".
By the mid-1880s, however, a tendency to self-conscious linear stylization was visible in his subject pictures, which dealt increasingly with the symbolism of youth and age, solitude, and contemplation, in such works as "Die Nacht" (1890; "The Night," Kunstmuseum, Bern), which brought him acclaim throughout Europe.
Its mission is to improve relations between the three faiths and fight prejudice.With a partner like that, is there a sub-conscious tendency, at least, to accentuate the positive just as right-of-centre groups may have a stake in showing that multi-cultural policies are failing?
According to Titchener, the main pitfall of introspection was what he called the "stimulus error," the strong tendency to confound the conscious experience itself with whatever it might represent.
Such a conception of consciousness finds some support in a tendency to say that conscious states of mind are those one is 'conscious of' or 'aware of' being in, and to interpret this 'of' to indicate some kind of reflexivity is involved — wherein one represents one's own mental representations (Rosenthal 1986 , 1991 1993, 2002b).
Fundamental theoretical predictions that, in unchanging contexts, habits will remain stable over time, consistently prompt behaviour, and override conscious deliberative tendencies (Triandis, 1977; Verplanken & Wood, 2006), have not been adequately tested.
When you become conscious of this tendency, it gets easier to flip the equation and focus on what's working and what you're doing right, which is an essential motivating element of sticking to your plans.
