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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Opinions, beliefs and points of view
accepted wisdom
Afrocentric
agnosticism
anti-drug
anti-ideological
bubble
creed
have/take a notion to do somethingidiom
helicopter view
heretical
heretically
hot take
pole
politics
posture
pretension
prism
proposition
recency bias
tick

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Mind and personality

mindset | Business English

mindset
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmaɪndset/us
a person's way of thinking and their opinions:
have a different/the same mindsetAmerican financiers have a very different mindset from ours.
It's extraordinary how hard it is to change the mindset of the public and the press.

Examples of mindset

mindset
A change in the mindsets of teachers was therefore attempted, in part, by the promotion of different types of classroom activities.
A mental health professional may be needed, given that the surrogate's mindset is anchored in a complex intergenerational trauma.
Interviews with teachers confirm these tensions, revealing that the mindset of teachers may privilege a bicultural nationalist paradigm.
Again, this stems from their understanding of issues from an adult perspective rather than from the mindset of a 12-year old girl, for example.
In an effort to explicate the core ideas of the deep ecology mindset, let us turn to their theses.
Working within that mindset, it is very easy to concentrate only on the large-scale patterns (or anti-patterns), and ignore those on lower levels.
Also, the discussion and conclusions appear to be trapped within the limits of the 'genetic ghetto' mindset.
That was the result of the mindset we had.
There is a widespread mindset that economic evaluations may only be performed if extensive and prospective data collection is undertaken.
They embraced a conservative ethnic mindset, maintaining their deference to religious and local community leaders.
As a mindset, such foci and limitations might aid internal cohesion, but must do so negatively.
We are studying how different mindsets greet this change, one resisting necessary adjustments, another responding with self-confidence and self-reliance.
The case study approach has an advantage in terms of the mindset of young female workers.
This suggests that ethical justification may need to follow a better understanding of the radical mindset of self-demand amputees.
Any attempt to break these mindsets and hegemonies is therefore to be vigorously applauded.
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