Egocentrism: critical review of the phenomenon (review of articles in a specialized issue of the journal New Ideas in Psychology

Kulikov D.K.

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Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2012. Vol. 1, no. 3, 5–13
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)

Egocentrism: critical review of the phenomenon (review of articles in a specialized issue of the journal New Ideas in Psychology ²⁸⁶⁶

Kulikov D.K.
associate professor of the chair of psychology and safety of living, faculty of information safety, Taganrog Institute of technology, Southern Federal University, Taganrog , Russia
e-mail: kuldk@mail.ru

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The article introduces the review of several publications collected in a thematic issue of the journal New Ideas in Psychology (2011) devoted to the problem of egocentrism in studies by Piaget and other scholars. The article discloses the efforts of some writers to estimate the perspective of investigating egocentrism in context of certain methodological paradigms (Wittgenstein, Mead, Elkind, Gibbs) and with consideration of some empirical data.

Keywords: development of intellect, egocentrism, adolescent egocentrism, moral reasoning, inter subjectivity

Column: Developmental psychology

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Kulikov D.K. Egocentrism: critical review of the phenomenon (review of articles in a specialized issue of the journal New Ideas in Psychology [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sovremennaia zarubezhnaia psikhologiia = Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2012. Vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 5–13. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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