> ... humiliation ... humiliating ... embarrassing ... humiliation 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 the term refers to an experience exhibited in young adolescence as part of development, people of any age may harbor a fantasy of an imaginary audience.  jean piaget, a swiss developmental psychologist known for his epistemological studies with children, states that every child experiences imaginary audience during the preoperational stage of development. he also said that children will outgrow this stage by age 7, but as we know now this stage lasts much longer than that for some.
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