introspection
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According to Psychology Today, “the same neural pathways responsible for generating innovative connections for humor may also create the intense introspection characteristic of depression.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
On AllMusic, Neil Yeung called it "a late-era treasure trove, external" full of "emotional catharsis and introspection".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
That makes it hard to recall his moments of introspection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Bowie’s kind of artifice works, though, because he’s aware of it, and his talents have more to do with character creation than introspection.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2008
This is reminiscent of Schooler’s experiments that I described in the Van Riper story, in which introspection destroyed people’s ability to solve insight problems.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
He just recorded introspections about a system that would inevitably fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Among the wisest of Coop’s early introspections considers the way that the race to acquire status symbols makes you lose sight of the things that once mattered.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Spill Tab is more than your run-of-the-mill bedroom pop act, though: Chicha’s quiet voice slices through dreamy, electro-dance ready introspections.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021
They have no conscious minds such as we say we have, and certainly no introspections.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 1, 2017
Furthermore, in this case we have a much more specific explanation for why introspections mess up our reactions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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