some barriers to critical thinking include egocentrism conformity absolutism and

Our native egocentrism : “to view everything in the world in relationship to oneself , to be self-centered” (Webster’s New World Dictionary); to view the world in self-validating or selfish terms.
Our native sociocentrism : to view everything in relationship to one’s group ; to be group-centered; to attach ourselves to others and together create beliefs, rules, and taboos to which those in the group are expected to adhere, and against which the behavior of those outside the group are judged; to view the world in group-validating or groupish terms.

Video Series

Analyze a Self-Centered Person You Know Well
Identify Your Irrational Purposes
Identify Some of Your Irrational Beliefs
Focus on a Disagreement in Which you Were Not Fairminded
Identify Prejudices in Your Beliefs
Identify When Someone Was Trying to Manipulate You
Focus on a Time when you Did Not Get What You Selfishly Wanted
To What Extent Are You Rational?
To What Extent Are You Egocentrically Dominating?
To What Extent Are You Egocentrically Submissive?
To What Extent Are You Egocentrically Dominating versus Submissive?
Analyze Your Group Memberships
Identify Sociocentric Thinking in the News
Identify Beliefs Acquired Through Group Membership
Identify Ways Children are Indoctrinated Into Group Ideologies
Identify Dysfunctional Behavior Within a Group
Identify the Impact of Group Influence
Identify the Impact of Groupishness
Identify Dangerous Group Validation
Examining Ideologies Imposed on Groups by Group Members
Distinguish Between Reasonable and Unreasonable Ideas Within a Group
Analyze a Group That Promotes Positive Change or Advancement of Critical Thinking Societies
Identify Nationalism Within Our Countries
Identify Group Control and Group Conformity
Analyze Group Power Within Cultures
Analyzing the Actions of Dissenters
Analyze Speciescentrism Within Our Cultures
Identify Sociocentric Thought Within Professions
Identify Politicians Hiding Behind Words
Analyze Sociocentric Uses of Words