Egocentrism

Japanese: 自己中心性 - じこちゅうしんせい(英語表記)egocentrism
Egocentrism

This refers to a way of cognition and thinking in which one cannot objectively analyze and recognize events from a third-party standpoint or from multiple perspectives, but instead analyzes and recognizes them subjectively, from one's own standpoint or from one fixed perspective. Psychologist J. Piaget believed that children's thinking had this type of character, and named it egocentric thinking. In addition to the above, he pointed out other characteristics such as the inability to introspect or reflect on one's own actions or actions, the inability to judge relative relationships, the fixation on perceptually prominent features and lack of comprehensive judgment, and the lack of awareness of contradictions. This type of thinking often occurs in pathological states such as schizophrenia and hysteria. It is different from egoism in the moral sense.

[Amano Kiyoshi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

事象を客観的に第三者の立場、あるいは複数の視点から分析・認識できず、主観的に、自分の立場、あるいは固定した一つの視点だけから分析・認識する認知・思考の仕方をいう。心理学者のJ・ピアジェは、児童の思考はこのような性格をもつと考え、自己中心的思考と名づけた。さらに、前述のほか、自己の行為や操作についての内省・反省や、相対的関係判断が不可能であること、知覚的に際だった特徴にこだわり総合的判断に欠けること、矛盾意識がないことなどの特徴を指摘した。統合失調症(精神分裂病)、ヒステリーなどの病的状態の際も、このタイプの思考がしばしば生じる。道徳的な意味での利己主義とは異なる。

[天野 清]

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