self-report

self- +‎ report

Sense 2 was coined by players of Among Us, in which the imposter can report the body of another player he has just killed, as if having just discovered it guiltlessly.

self-report (plural self-reports)

1. A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
2. (informal) 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.

   His constantly talking about rape laws was a bit of a self-report.

self-report (third-person singular simple present self-reports, present participle self-reporting, simple past and past participle self-reported)

1. To respond in this manner.
2. To report one's own problem or failing.
   • 2022 January 29, “Network News: First pays out after Delay Repay error”, in RAIL, number 960, page 27:

     The train operating company-owning group [...] says it self-reported the issue to the Office of Rail and Road after identifying the problem during a recent audit.

• “self-report”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.