self-observation

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He was testing how far the stage could rival the short story, his other main artistic outlet, as a medium of self-observation and subtle epiphany.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

“The moments where you are fully in it, all that goes — all that awareness, all that self-observation, all that stuff, that inner critic,” Considine said.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

The narcissism of self-observation has been turned into observation of another human being, and that, in turn, has been directed outward to observation of the world.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

“The effective methods still demand self-observation by women,” she says.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2018

To make use of a large number of subjects accustomed to intelligent self-observation, I made the first series of experiments with the regular students in my psychology lecture course in Harvard University.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo