self-monitoring.

Watching and evaluating your own behaviour, thoughts, or reactions, often so you can adjust them.

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Words that belong together

• behavioural self-monitoring
• self-monitoring skills

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Self-monitoring helped her notice that she interrupted whenever she felt uncertain.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.