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Introspection
About: Introspection is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1914 publications have been published within this topic receiving 47100 citations.
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TL;DR: For the 2 decades prior to 1960, published research in social psychology was based on a wide variety of subjects and research sites and content analyses show that since then such research has overwhelmingly been based on college students tested in academic laboratories on academic-like tasks as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: For the 2 decades prior to 1960, published research in social psychology was based on a wide variety of subjects and research sites. Content analyses show that since then such research has overwhelmingly been based on college students tested in academic laboratories on academiclike tasks. How might this heavy dependence on one narrow data base have biased the main substantive conclusions of sociopsychological research in this era? Research on the full life span suggests that, compared with older adults, college students are likely to have less-crystallized attitudes, less-formulated senses of self, stronger cognitive skills, stronger tendencies to comply with authority, and more unstable peer group relationships. The laboratory setting is likely to exaggerate all these differences. These peculiarities of social psychology's predominant data base may have contributed to central elements of its portrait of human nature. According to this view people (a) are quite compliant and their behavior is easily socially influenced, (b) readily change their attitudes and (c) behave inconsistently with them, and (d) do not rest their self-perceptions on introspection. The narrow data base may also contribute to this portrait of human nature's (e) strong emphasis on cognitive processes and to its lack of emphasis on (f) personality dispositions, (g) material self-interest, (h) emotionally based irrationalities, (i) group norms, and (j) stage-specific phenomena. The analysis implies the need both for more careful examination of sociopsychological propositions for systematic biases introduced by dependence on this narrow data base and for increased reliance on adults tested in their natural habitats with materials drawn from ordinary life.
1,932 citations
TL;DR: In this article, Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees from learning from mistakes, and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses when they do fail.
Abstract: Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward--on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The HBR Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world-and will change how you think about the business world today.
1,431 citations
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The representational character of sense experience introspection qualia consciousness externalism and supervenience has been studied in this paper, where it is shown that the sense experience is a metaphor for self-awareness.
Abstract: The representational character of sense experience introspection qualia consciousness externalism and supervenience.
1,326 citations
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01 Jan 1968
TL;DR: A classification of theories of mind can be found in this paper, with a focus on dualism, dualism and the attribute theory of the central-state theory of mind, as well as on the nature of mind.
Abstract: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction Part One: Theories of Mind 1 A Classification of Theories of Mind 2 Dualism 3 The Attribute Theory 4 A Difficulty for any Non-materialist Theory of Mind 5 Behaviourism 6The Central-State Theory Part Two: The Concept of Mind 7 The Will (1) 8 The Will (2) 9 Knowledge and Inference 10 Perception and Belief 11 Perception and Behaviour 12 The Secondary Qualities 13 Mental Images 14 Bodily Sensations 15 Introspection 16 Belief and Thought Part Three: The Nature of Mind 17 Identification of the Mental with the Physical Bibliography Index
1,268 citations
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30 Sep 2002
TL;DR: The authors The Adaptive Unconscious, Freud's Genius and Freud's Myopia: Looking Outward to Know Ourselves 10. Observing and Changing Our Behavior Notes Bibliography Index Index
Abstract: Preface 1. Freud's Genius, Freud's Myopia 2. The Adaptive Unconscious 3. Who's in Charge? 4. Knowing Who We Are 5. Knowing Why 6. Knowing How We Feel 7. Knowing How We Will Feel 8. Introspection and Self-Narratives 9. Looking Outward to Know Ourselves 10. Observing and Changing Our Behavior Notes Bibliography Index
1,194 citations