Imaginary+Audience

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Definition:
A belief of adolescents that they are or will be the focus of attention in social situations and that others will be as critical or approving as they are of themselves. Gen Psych Chapter 8, pp. 242-243

Examples:
When a girl walks down the hallway and people behind her start talking and laughing, she assumes that they are talking/laughing about her.

Analogies:
Imaginary Audience is like being the center of attention, but not really.

Mnemonics:
Thinking it is all about you when its not.

In the News:
(a).[|Imaginary Audience] (b).[|THE IMAGINARY AUDIENCE]

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