Example Sentences

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An analysis of Facebook status updates found substantial discrepancies between how viewers saw the authors across a range of personality traits, and the authors' self-perceptions.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

The most alarming effect, she said, is that young people who don’t seek help to set aside those damaging and inaccurate self-perceptions may end up giving up and dropping out.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

The unexamined among us allow these ancient self-perceptions to run the show in current time, but not Nxians.

From New York Times • May 30, 2018

Sometimes, a patient’s personality states, called alters, can even have their own history, names or self-perceptions.

From US News • Mar. 12, 2015

Noting that developmental psychologists have isolated the second and third decades as times of identity formation, they gathered a group of volunteers and tried to map the emergence of their self-perceptions.

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2013