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  • verb Present participle of decenter.

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Examples

  • I use the term decentering to refer to a series of changes that firms are undertaking that contradict that logic.

    HBS Working Knowledge 2009

  • Q: How did you come upon these developments and the notion of decentering?

    HBS Working Knowledge 2009

  • The means by which mindfulness influences health and well-being will be a topic of science for decades to come, but what is already suggested is that it alters our relationship with thoughts and emotions so that there is a level of "decentering" that arises, where our experiences are seen as less attached.

    Susan Smalley, Ph.D.: Mind Body Medicine: Can What You Think and Feel Affect Your Physical Health? Ph.D. Susan Smalley 2010

  • They call this "decentering" and its an easy trap to fall into - its how you walk - by being continually off balance, still, its not very stable.

    Set the record straight (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • And let's throw in "decentering" while we're at it.

    Words 2005

  • As an enthusiast of Freudian models of the unconscious, it should be perfectly apparent to Eagleman that the decentering of the conscious mind took place long before the rise of contemporary neuroscience.

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

  • We should not worry about all this "decentering", Eagleman concludes, because science shows us that brain and mind and life are even more wondrous and exciting than we thought.

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

  • But somehow all this talk of imperialism and deconstruction and decentering has sapped the strength of folks who read the Ottawa Sun and listen to Lowell Green.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • But somehow all this talk of imperialism and deconstruction and decentering has sapped the strength of folks who read the Ottawa Sun and listen to Lowell Green.

    The decline of the West 2009

  • In trying circumstances, decentering is one of the first cognitive skills to go.

    The Blessing of a B Minus Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2010

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