English Explanatory Dictionary

self-report

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
  2. Something said by someone with the purpose of conveying a neutral stance on a subject but unintentionally leading to that person's bias being revealed.
verb
  1. To respond in this manner.
  2. To report one's own problems or failings.

Word forms

self-report self-reports self-reporting self-reported

Etymology

From self- + report. Noun sense 2 was coined by players of Among Us, in which the impostor can report the body of another player they have just killed, as if having just discovered it guiltlessly.

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