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Focus phrase

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"Focus Phrase" is a term used in cognitive-therapy and awareness-management discussions to describe elicitor statements that evoke a desired refocusing of attention. Psychologically related terms are elicitor phrase or statement of intent.

Definition

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"Focus phrase" is defined as "a specially-constructed short sentence or phrase that states a person's inner intent to refocus his or her attention immediately in a new pre-ordained direction".[citation needed]

The term Focus Phrase has been studied academically as a part of a Semantics dissertation.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ [1] Archived September 25, 2006, at the Wayback Machine