Sentences with phrase «in egocentrism»

To measure trends in egocentrism, researchers at the University of Michigan analyzed the text of State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2012.

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In fact, a 2005 study, amusingly titled «Egocentrism over e-mail,» found that people vastly overestimate how often the recipient of a message will correctly identify their intended tone, whether serious or sarcastic.

This allows sophistry based on your extreme egocentrism, in short, allows you to lie your ass off.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

Gone, too, (at least virtually and in aspiration), is the infernal circle of egocentrism, meaning the isolation, in some sort ontological, which prohibits our escape from self to share the point of view even of those we love best: as though the Universe were composed of as many fragmentary universes, repelling each other, as the sum total of the centers of consciousness which it embraces.

Setting aside all metaphysics, the two terms in each of these pairs are articulated in a quasi - measurable fashion one with the other; with the twofold result not only of at last affording us a unified concept of the Universe, but also of breaking down the two barriers behind which Man was coming to believe himself to be for ever imprisoned — the magic circle of phenomenalism and the infernal circle of egocentrism.

One of the greatest virtues Hartshorne sees in event - pluralism is that it does away with the metaphysical underpinning of egocentrism and the self - interest theory of motivation (pp. 190, 198 ff.).

Being exposed to varying backgrounds and perspectives may also help tweens move beyond adolescent egocentrism, which in turn benefits their interactions with peers, teachers, and parents.

Thanks in part to adolescent egocentrism, tweens tend to care most about topics that have a personal relevance to them.

Egocentrism — defined by Wikipedia as a) the incomplete differentiation of the self and the world, including other people and b) the tendency to perceive, understand and interpret the world in terms of the self.

Continuity, in combination with reflection, makes it possible to understand how one's understanding of experience is related to that of others, reducing isolation and egocentrism.

Elkind (26) suggests that the cognitive shifts that occur in adolescence result in a form of adolescent «egocentrism» in which the adolescent is overwhelmed by the sense that he or she is the focus of everyone's attention, coupled with the belief that his or her experiences are entirely unique.

Having trouble with affection and sympathy, among the interpersonal problems accounted for the most variance in internet addiction, and the additional accountabilities of egocentrism was significant.