Imaginary audience
Concept in developmental psychology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the concept in developmental psychology. For the sociological concept of an "imagined audience", see generalized other.
The imaginary audience refers to a psychological state where an individual imagines and believes that multitudes of people are listening to or watching them. It is one of the mental constructs in David Elkind's idea of adolescent egocentrism (along with the personal fable). Though this state is often exhibited in young adolescence, people of any age may harbor a fantasy of an imaginary audience.