How to Use self-perception in a Sentence

self-perception

noun
  • Even later when her bones stopped breaking so much, her self-perceptions (and everyone else's) stayed the same.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Here’s what experts had to say about why self-perception of sleep trumps what the sleep tracker says, and ways to improve sleep quality to boost your next-day mood.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Your friends and the people who love you might see you one way, but your self-perception may not resemble their perception.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • How did being online at such a young age affect your self-perception?
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Because of this, the feedback received from others helps shape our self-perception.
    — Allie Volpe, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Get curious about how the other person perceives you and whether that aligns with your self-perception.
    — Anne Sugar, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That the little assemblage took at least six months to make suggests that the artist’s self-perception was in considerable flux.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Social media has been messing with young people’s self-perception for many years now.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Jack becomes a minor celebrity in his field, but how that impacts his self-perception or life goals is left unexplored.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024
  • What matters is the speaker’s identity and self-perception.
    — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The physical changes that go down during adolescence can do a number on a person’s self-perception.
    — Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Adults can help girls by discussing with them how social media influences their feelings, their self-perception and even their body image.
    — Elizabeth Englander, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Western support for Ukraine and Russian self-perception are deeply intertwined.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, the self-perceptions of the Americans and the Chinese are perfectly symmetrical.
    — Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Your desires are focused on the future and your heart is ready to expand with affection, but the season’s second Full Moon pits your self-perception against your immediate feelings.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 12 July 2024
  • We’re told the feature will delve deeper into themes of identity, technology, and self-perception while retaining the darkly comedic and absurd tone that defined the short.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Men are better than women at tuning into their hearts, but no differences were observed for gastric self-perception.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Philip Sossenheimer, a 30-year-old medical resident at Stanford, told me that these changes had begun to precipitate a shift in self-perception among doctors.
    — Eyal Press, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Not only that, but the vast majority have also been subjected to the misguided self-perceptions of a tiny minority.
    — Azhar Fateh, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Compounded by celebrity culture, the BBL trend dying is a signal to create healthy and realistic self-perceptions that aren’t warped by social media.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Aug. 2023
  • This shift not only transformed her self-perception, but also empowered her to achieve key career goals, including promotion and growth.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Remember to consider not only your self-perception, but also the perception of your coworkers, customers and your boss.
    — Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The strain of masking for long periods can be exhausting, harming not only someone’s physical well-being but also their self-perception.
    — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Those who externalize their self-perception are less likely to have a strong sense of self, which in turn, negatively impacts emotional intimacy.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Many people with eating disorders have a distorted self-perception.
    — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Communication, self-perception, and your signature charge-ahead energy are not helping with your attempts to fix your current problems.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • One powerful method for reshaping our beliefs is through exercises that challenge our self-perceptions.
    — Anna Tan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The findings highlight how expectations can dampen or elevate our self-perception.
    — Linh Ta, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • But its most beloved contribution was perhaps always the podcast, which saw Lammer, Linsky, and Ratliff dive into the nitty-gritty of their guests’ interiority: process, purpose, self-perception.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 June 2024
  • Shortly following Jackson's criticism, Palmer reflected on how motherhood has shifted her self-perception in an interview with The Cut.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023

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