imaginary audience

collocation in English

meaningsofimaginaryandaudience

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imaginary
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmædʒ.ɪ.nər.i/us
/ɪˈmædʒ.ə.ner.i/
Something that is imaginary is created by and exists only in ...
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audience
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.di.əns/us
/ˈɑː.di.əns/
the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone ...
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(Definition ofimaginaryandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although we have no direct evidence here hostile voices seem to act like a ' criticalimaginaryaudience' that seeks to control and shame.
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It is animaginaryaudiencemostly composed of spirits.
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Theimaginaryaudienceis a psychological concept common to the adolescent stage of human development.
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Imaginaryaudiencewill likely cease before adolescence ends, as it is a huge part of personality development.
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The extremes to which adolescents experience animaginaryaudience, however, varies from child to child.
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Imaginaryaudienceeffects are not a neurological disorder, but more a personality or developmental stage of life.
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Also, the results showed that theimaginaryaudiencephenomenon seems to decrease as one ages, more so than personal fable.
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In reality, only a small percentage of those people have any interest in a persons activities, and a maturing worldview will usually reduce the impression that thisimaginaryaudienceexists.
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However, there are also some negative aspects which include the child or adolescent developing some egocentric thoughts which include theimaginaryaudienceand the personal fable.
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The number of adolescents who experience animaginaryaudienceeffect can not be described with any sort of statistics because an imaginary audience is experienced in all adolescents.
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Some children are considered to be more egocentric than others and experience more of an extremeimaginaryaudienceor have more of an elaborate personal fable.
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Being able to introspect may lead to two forms of adolescent egocentrism, which results in two distinct problems in thinking: theimaginaryaudienceand the personal fable.
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Elkind also created terms to help describe the egocentric behaviors exhibited by the adolescent population such as what he calls animaginaryaudienceand personal fable.
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