metaperspective

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ perspective.

Noun

metaperspective (plural metaperspectives)

1. (psychology) The perspective that one believes another person to attribute to him or her.
   • 1981, Dennis R Smith, Lewis Keith Williamson, Interpersonal communication: roles, rules, strategies, and games:

     The husband's metaperspective is his view of his wife's view of her relationship with him.

   • 1994, Mary Lou Rubert, Psychoethics, America's Perestroika, page 5:

     Psychoethics is also seen as a guide in identifying problems with disciplines from the eagle's point of a metaperspective and in the interest of helping in decision making .

   • 2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social psychology in sport:

     The metaperspective aims to assess the degree to which one relationship member can accurately infer the other member's closeness, commitment, and complementarity.

Hypernyms

• perspective