A 13 year old female patient presents to the dental clinic and requests to get braces. On intra-oral examination Class I molar and incisor relationship is seen along with mild lower anterior crowding. Further along the conversation, she reveals how she feels left out as the rest of her classmates have braces while she does not. Patient appears to be very conscious of her appearance and has an inferiority complex. This phenomenon is described by Elkind as: