self-view

Example Sentences

• "Modesty, then denotes a moderate self-view—seeing oneself as intermediate, rather than as very positive or very negative, on key personal attributes such as personality traits, abilities and skills, physical appearance, and social behavior. A moderate self-view may be entertained privately or expressed publicly."
• "From this vantage point, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators."
• "That is, if people are highly certain of their self-view when they reach Phase 2, they will be inclined to compare the feedback with their own self-conceptualization if the necessary cognitive resources are available."
• "Once an individual establishes a well-articulated self-schema in a particular domain, he generally acts to preserve that self-view."
• "But mark the punishment which did ensue Upon those ill-misleading villanies; They blinded were themselves with their self view, and fell into their own-made miseries;"
• "nor can I say thet either of them loved without some Self-view. Amelia plainly saw into the Falseness of their Tempers, look'd upon it as a Misfortune to be married into such a Family, and only made this Use of it, to avoid the Crime in herself ."