on this site we are referring to “personal reflexivity,” which is about a person’s values, beliefs, acquaintances, and interests, and how they can influence a person’s research, writing, and behaviors towards others, etc.
being able to recognize one’s own biases and prejudices, beliefs and assumptions – recognizing culture-boundthinking that you are limited by your own cultural patterns, not able to recognize or assimilate into another culture's way of thinking - an example would be if you were visiting a culture where they raise dogs for human consumption and you could not "wrap your head around" that kind of thinking, that it was normal to raise dogs for food, you would be culture-bound attitudes and acquiring the ability to self-critique one’s own behaviors; this is especially important when meeting people from other cultures, or writing descriptions of others’ cultures –