Internalization is when people accept a belief or behavior and agree both publicly and privately.

Though they wanted to go no more than I wanted them along, they now dared not agree with me publicly.

"Although you did not answer my question, I am forced to agree with your conclusion-at least publicly."

They publicly agreed to do a film together some day, which came to be Blood and Bones two years later.

As a result, Mayor West publicly agreed that racial discrimination was morally wrong.

Very few Iraqi leaders publicly agree.

Smiley's husband and father have never publicly agreed or disagreed with Shore Duty.

They agreed last month to no longer talk publicly about their troubles.

On the one hand, an individual minister should resign if he could not publicly agree with the policy of the Cabinet as a whole.

In turn, conversion, otherwise known as private acceptance, involves both publicly and privately agreeing with the groups' decision.