- 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.
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- 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
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