Do you have a reference for that definition? Because from what I have read, which has not been a ton, but a fair amount, I don't find a negative connotation to the term. From the way you are phrasing it, it seems that all "social chameleons" hide their true selves, while the studies I read say that in some cases they are phony, but in others they are people that know has to navigate the environment by tuning in to the people in it. You could think they are phony because you only see one facet and can't understand the whole, not because they are necessarily hiding it or aren't aware of their true selves.
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