The phrase "type of mind" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a particular way of thinking or to refer to the general attitude of a person, group, or culture. For example, "She has a creative and imaginative type of mind."
This type of mind is described as systemising.
Paul personified this type of mind — which could be called fanaticism.
There is a certain type of mind, he writes elsewhere in this book, that is attracted to radical doctrines.
Again, from "The Republic": "Have you noticed how a lifelong devotion to physical exercise, to the exclusion of anything else, produces a certain type of mind?
He added: "Depends what type of mind you have and if you thrive in the spotlight or if you welcome it.
Mrs. Roosevelt then asserted that a woman elected to public office should not try to do her work the way a man would, even though some women "have the same type of mind as men have".
Mindfulness meditation practices are one such type of mind-body practices.
"That was a tough, physical, aggressive, never-scared type of mind-set, and that rubbed off on everybody".
The Broncos senior tailback Ian Johnson said this season's team had the same type of mind-set as the one that stunned Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
Vogel says he has an "outwork-everybody-in-sight type of mind-set," one he needed as a graduate student manager at Kentucky under the demanding coach Rick Pitino and before that as a biology major studying feverishly to go to medical school.
Thus, it seems to be the case that self-reports of mind-wandering during challenging laboratory tasks may be indexing a particular type of mind-wandering.
