Egocentric
adjective
Thinking only about oneself, not considering the thoughts or feelings of other people.
Her egocentric behaviour annoyed everyone in the team.
Often appears as...
- egocentric behavior
- egocentric attitude
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Disapproving
noun
A person who is self-centered, concerned only with their own wants and needs.
He's an egocentric who can't see beyond his own perspective.
Often appears as...
- being an egocentric
- know an egocentric
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Disapproving
adjective
In psychology, it refers to the inability of a person to view a situation from another person's perspective.
Children are naturally egocentric, but they learn to understand other perspectives as they grow.
Often appears as...
- egocentric thinking
- egocentric stage
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Neutral
Academic
adjective
Thinking only about oneself, not considering the thoughts or feelings of other people.
Her egocentric behaviour annoyed everyone in the team.
Often appears as...
- egocentric behavior
- egocentric attitude
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is self-centered, concerned only with their own wants and needs.
He's an egocentric who can't see beyond his own perspective.
Often appears as...
- being an egocentric
- know an egocentric
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
In psychology, it refers to the inability of a person to view a situation from another person's perspective.
Children are naturally egocentric, but they learn to understand other perspectives as they grow.
Often appears as...
- egocentric thinking
- egocentric stage
Usage tips
Neutral
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
When calling someone egocentric, it suggests they are selfish and lack empathy.
His egocentric refusal to help others made him unpopular.
Pro Tip 2/3Beware of Insults
Use with caution; 'egocentric' can offend if used to describe someone directly.
Calling her egocentric led to an argument.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Context
Often used to describe negative behavior in social and team settings.
His egocentric attitude clashed with the team's collaborative spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
When calling someone egocentric, it suggests they are selfish and lack empathy.
His egocentric refusal to help others made him unpopular.
Pro Tip 2/3Beware of Insults
Use with caution; 'egocentric' can offend if used to describe someone directly.
Calling her egocentric led to an argument.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Context
Often used to describe negative behavior in social and team settings.
His egocentric attitude clashed with the team's collaborative spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
When calling someone egocentric, it suggests they are selfish and lack empathy.
His egocentric refusal to help others made him unpopular.
Pro Tip 2/3Beware of Insults
Use with caution; 'egocentric' can offend if used to describe someone directly.
Calling her egocentric led to an argument.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Context
Often used to describe negative behavior in social and team settings.
His egocentric attitude clashed with the team's collaborative spirit.
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Some of these biases are unique to individuals, but others are more universal. For example, egocentric bias can influence people to subconsciously reshape their memories in ways that cast a positive light on their actions. Even if we were able to encode a memory accurately,
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there questions that everyone has and that's how I feel about our place in the universe you know the idea that we are the only things out here doesn't make any sense to me there would be it's inexcusably egocentric to even suggest it and isn't
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Alison Gopnik: What do...
What is going on in this baby's mind? If you'd asked people this 30 years ago, most people, including psychologists, would have said that this baby was irrational, illogical, egocentric --
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How do you know what's...
Some of these biases are unique to individuals, but others are more universal. For example, egocentric bias can influence people to subconsciously reshape their memories in ways that cast a positive light on their actions. Even if we were able to encode a memory accurately,
Video examples
Drop Little Droplets in...
there questions that everyone has and that's how I feel about our place in the universe you know the idea that we are the only things out here doesn't make any sense to me there would be it's inexcusably egocentric to even suggest it and isn't
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Alison Gopnik: What do...
What is going on in this baby's mind? If you'd asked people this 30 years ago, most people, including psychologists, would have said that this baby was irrational, illogical, egocentric --
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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Troy Polamalu
American Athlete
Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
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Park Shin-hye
South Korean Actress
Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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Andrea Corr
Irish Musician
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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Erving Goffman
Canadian Scientist
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.
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Gianluigi Buffon
Italian Athlete
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
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Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
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Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
Americans are so egocentric.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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Troy Polamalu
American Athlete
Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
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Park Shin-hye
South Korean Actress
Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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Andrea Corr
Irish Musician
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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Erving Goffman
Canadian Scientist
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.
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Gianluigi Buffon
Italian Athlete
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
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Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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John C. Maxwell
American Clergyman
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
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Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
Americans are so egocentric.
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