Moreover, concerns about revealing self-flaws – and, in particular, about appearing socially incompetent – accounted for significant, unique variance in SAD participants' exaggerated cost estimates of self blunders, over and above symptoms of social anxiety and depression.
Being a girl, that wrinkled brow seems to say, involves policing your self for flaws and imperfections.
"It came out that I had self-destructive flaws, and I was beginning to see them," he said.
Members of Germany's coaching staff who were involved in Euro 96 were struck on Tuesday night by the neutralisation of the atmosphere at a venue which, for all its self-evident flaws, retains a global mystique.
Her Naked Skin is clearly not the easy feminist ride some of us might like, but at least it doesn't shy away from humanity's harsher truths, our selfish and, often, self-harming flaws.
You might not agree with his analysis but, despite his self-confessed flaws, Barton always leaves you with something to think and talk about.
So let's take Squared for what it is, and (hopefully) help it grow into something powerful rather than harp on its self-admitted flaws.
"What began as a self conscious flaw became an asset".
I have long believed we live in a shame-based society that seems quite adept at reminding us of our self-perceived flaws and shortcomings.
Perhaps a main reason that fair-trade coffee continues to have credibility with many in the general population is the immense marketing campaign undertaken by Fair Trade USA, which continues to promote itself despite the self-neutralizing flaws in its poorly designed system.
