When adolescents misdirect their own preoccupation about themselves on to others and assume that they are the focus of others’ attention, they are engaging in imaginary audience.
This is the term that is used to refer to the psychological state that people would be in where they would believe that they have an audience that is watching the things that they do or an audience that is listening to them and observing them.
For instance, when a teenager has a pimple on his face, he may be so conscious that he would feel like everyone is looking at the pimple he has.
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