Psychology Today | 06.10.2026 00:41
Our ability to look inward and monitor our mental processes goes by several names. Among them are the observing ego, meta awareness, and the one I like, reflective function. Whatever we call it, when it is working, it lets us sense what mode of processing we are engaged in.
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