egocentrism

Examples of egocentrism in the following topics:

• Cognitive Development in Adolescence

  • Cognitive theorist Jean Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and egocentric thoughts decrease.
  • Being able to introspect may lead to two forms of egocentrism, or self-focus, in adolescents, which result in two distinct problems in thinking: the imaginary audience (when an adolescent believes everyone is listening to him or her) and the personal fable (which causes adolescents to feel that nothing harmful could ever happen to them).

• Cognitive Development in Childhood

  • Much thought during the preoperational phase is egocentric—focused only on the child's point of view.

• Socioemotional Development in Adolescence

  • Adolescents tend to be rather egocentric; they often experience a self-conscious desire to feel important in peer groups and receive social acceptance.

• Cultural Influences on Perception

  • The Egocentric bias causes individuals to think more positively about themselves than others think of them.

• Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

  • Children at this stage are very egocentric, meaning they focus on themselves and how actions will impact them, rather than others.

• Cluster B: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

  • First formulated in 1968, NPD was historically called megalomania and is a form of severe egocentrism.