sympathetic introspection

[ sim-puh-thet-ik in-truh-spek-shuhn ]

nounSociology.
  1. a study of human conduct in which the investigator imagines that they are engaged in that conduct.

Origin of sympathetic introspection

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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