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looking-glass self
[ look-ing-glas, -glahs ]
noun
- the self-image an individual forms by imagining what others think of their behavior and appearance.
Example Sentences
鈥淭he whole idea of the 鈥榣ooking-glass self鈥 model of psychology is that we are who others see us as,鈥 Campbell said.
鈥淎s psychologists we talk about the looking-glass self,鈥 Qualter says.
It is thought that our identity is partly shaped by the way we are treated by other people - a concept psychologists call the "looking-glass self" - and our name has the potential to colour our interactions with society.
Cooley's discriminating description of "the looking-glass self" offers a picture of the process by which the person conceives himself in terms of the attitudes of others toward him.
The reflected or looking-glass self seems to have three principal elements: the imagination of our appearance to the other person; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance; and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification.
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