Sentence examples for self representations from inspiring English sources

Thus, our awareness appears to alternate between processing of stimuli impinging upon us from the outside and updating of our self representations in regard to those stimuli.

It is based on a theoretical account of mood disorder which suggests that positive self representations are relatively dormant within individuals suffering from depression, at least in part due to infrequent activation.

However because these subdivisions have proved difficult to use in practice, Curbow has suggested that 'The self concept is best viewed as a collection of self representations' some of which will be core conceptions and some will be more peripheral, and that self-concept is dynamic: active, forceful and capable of change [ 13].

Despite their self-representations as bastions of democracy, all Western states have violated tenets of the liberal democracy ideal.

Under some circumstances, filmmakers' self-representations are interpreted (albeit often wrongly) as self-celebrations at the expense of political or societal concerns.

This view was profoundly misjudged, for Auchincloss interrogated the values, class consciousness and self-representations of the most powerful people in the world's most powerful nation.

In some cases, the actors incorporated post-colonial clichés into their own tableaus, thereby creating subversive self-representations with Hugo as the instigator and documentarian.

Meanwhile, the panoply of people online is depicted through a multitude of forms – a penguin, a bear, a dog – and the members of the group through their self-representations.

[#unhandled_cartoon] The critic Michael Warner, who is gay, white, and often "correct," wrote recently that a democratic culture had to involve judgments "that do not entirely stem from the self-representations of the people affected".

Jeremy Bailenson, director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University, and his colleague Nick Yee call this the Proteus effect, after the Greek god who can embody many different self-representations.

But, unlike the larkish handles of Hollywood celebrities, as revealed by the Sony hackers (Tom Hanks, a.k.a. Johnny Madrid; Sarah Michelle Gellar, a.k.a. Neely O'Hara), the fake names of politicians seem to yield strangely earnest self-representations. Diane Reynolds.