causal
Imaginary Audience Generates Conscience
Humans have evolved an 'imaginary audience'—a tribe carried in our heads that judges us—producing feelings of pride and shame and functioning as conscience, so that we feel a jolt of higher status even when we do good things privately and others reward us with status when they discover them.
causalpending
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Will StorrEvidence Quote
“researchers write about what they call the imaginary audience that we have in our heads... we feel prideful and shameful when... things happen in front of the imaginary audience in our heads”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:55:49 AM
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