as in self-image
the idea that you have about the kind of person you are
People's self-perceptions are often very different from the way other people perceive them.
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Recent Examples of self-perception
Research even suggests that delaying goal failure, rather than giving in immediately when you’re tempted to engage in a behavior that defeats your goals, helps maintain a positive self-perception of self-control.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Most frequently, a person's self-perception will not be an accurate reflection of their communication competence.
—Su Bridgman, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
His comedy is a shallow-focus lens, rendering every plane of his self-perception in exquisite detail and losing specificity or texture as soon as that lens pans out toward other characters in his story.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 May 2025
This identity disruption extends beyond self-perception.
—Lorraine Wiseman, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Most frequently, a person's self-perception will not be an accurate reflection of their communication competence.
—Su Bridgman, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
His comedy is a shallow-focus lens, rendering every plane of his self-perception in exquisite detail and losing specificity or texture as soon as that lens pans out toward other characters in his story.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 May 2025
This identity disruption extends beyond self-perception.
—Lorraine Wiseman, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for self-perception
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-perception
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If those photographs, an implicit quest for a self-image, form a kind of question mark, what comes next in the show has the impact of an exclamation mark: a self-portrait from 1950, in which Varda sports the bowl cut that would be a trademark for the rest of her life.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 July 2025
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For many, the journey from diagnosis to disease management is marked by navigating sudden lifestyle adjustments, grappling with self-image shifts, and finding ways to cope with the unpredictability of flare-ups.—
Chloe Castleberry,
Flow Space,
25 July 2025
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Now her work focuses on how clothing shapes emotional well-being, self-concept, and resilience.—
Virgie Tovar,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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Ultimately, McKibben seems unable to imagine an alternative way for modern, secular life to have meaning that is not grounded in a self-concept of hyper-individuality and the false belief that technology does not already mediate every aspect of our existence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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“Self-perception.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-perception. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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