Self-perception
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What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.
Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.
His status, not unlike most American icons, is representative not of his own accomplishments, but the self-perception of the society which chose him as a hero.
In the games the advent of such augmentation that is conducive to previously inhuman feats results in widespread civil unrest, fundamentally challenging the self-perception and identity of humanity.
Later in his career, Milgram developed a technique for creating interactive hybrid social agents ( cyranoids ), which has since been used to explore aspects of social- and self-perception.