(1) Animals with medial prefrontal cortex or parietal cortex lesions and sham-operated and non-operated controls were tested for the acquisition of an adjacent arm task that accentuated the importance of egocentric spatial localization and a cheese board task that accentuated the importance of allocentric spatial localization.
(2) The purpose of the present experiment was to examine the role of familiar size in judgments of size and egocentric distance under natural (non-reduced) viewing conditions.
(3) This error can be explained on the one hand in terms of response dependence or egocentrism, or on the other hand as due to a lack of adequate spatial cues to allocentric position.
(4) Two experiments were performed to assess the accuracy and precision with which adults perceive absolute egocentric distances to visible targets and coordinate their actions with them when walking without vision.
(5) There has been little impetus to follow up these computations with experimental observations, because the vertical disparities that normally occur between the images in the two eyes have always been regarded as being too small to be of significance for visual perception and because experiments have consistently shown that our conscious appreciation of egocentric distance is rather crude and unreliable.
(6) A second group of rats was trained on a right-left discrimination (egocentric) and a place-learning task (allocentric).
(7) This paper reports an exploratory study of potential correlates of Exner's Rorschach Egocentricity Index, a measure of self-focusing, in a sample of 70 psychiatric inpatients.
(8) It's not egocentricity that makes me state that – as I explain in the introduction, most books about creativity are really dull.
(9) Further, the data showed that, for some subjects, variations in the positions of the two eyes do not have equal effects on egocentric direction.
(10) This study was carried out to determine whether certain types of egocentric perception exist in the children of psychotic parents that might represent a clue to vulnerability.
(11) The subjects took longer to make an initial response, made more correct, and somewhat fewer egocentric responses under the high differentiation condition than under the low differentiation condition.
(12) However, the close conceptual relationship between moral development and egocentrism throughout life received only slight statistical support, which attained significance only in the fifteen- to nineteen-year-old age group.
(13) An egocentric pattern of sexual behavior appeared in the marital relationships of abusive husbands.
(14) This study examined the Rorschach and MMPI covariates of Exner's Egocentricity Index, 3r + (2): R, in a sample of child and adolescent outpatients (n = 46).
(15) Analyses indicate that cognitive capacity and cognitive egocentrism are significantly related to and predictive of 5 of 7 decision-making variables considered in the study.
(16) Men reared by punitive parents showed a tendency to be egocentric.
(17) The results showed that S had more egocentric communication and active disqualifications than NS and N. S were also less likely to communicate that they kept track of and understood the other spouse's communication.
(18) The data suggest a double dissociation of function between medial prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex in terms of coding of egocentric versus allocentric spatial information.
(19) Three types of neurons were identified by rotating the animals: egocentric and allocentric, and indeterminate.
(20) Furthermore, evidence has begun to accumulate that the CN is involved in the processing of a very specific class of spatial cues, namely, egocentric cues (localization with reference to the organism).
Narcissism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(2) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(3) A narcissic fragility and organizing troubles are remaining present and are the origin of an intense strain on the mind.
(4) The resulting 49-item CPI and 39-item MMPI scales correlated .81 with each other, and significantly so at p less than .01 with ratings of narcissism, the Raskin-Hall Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the MMPI Narcissism scale of Morey, Waugh, and Blashfield.
(5) According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in the form of a biopic.
(6) In June, just as Friendship was being published in the US, a blowhard critic named Edward Champion took her to task in an 11,000-word blog post titled “Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials” , in which his principal beef appeared to be that Gould was a woman and not James Baldwin.
(7) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
(8) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(9) Clinical examples are presented to show the importance of an excessive sense of entitlement--related to narcissism--as it appears in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis; yet it is also visible culturally and politically.
(10) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) It traces the major changes in the general theory that have relevance for the concept of narcissism.
(13) Then the first (and for Freud most important) narcissism concept is represented, narcissism as a mode of object relation and a type of object choice.
(14) But if this charge of narcissism of small differences has any purchase when directed at Assange, it can be levelled too against O'Hagan, who largely ignores the bigger issues about which Assange and WikiLeaks have consistently sounded alarm.
(15) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(16) It is the latter which constitutes the study of narcissism.
(17) Level of narcissism was assessed utilizing Exner's (1973) Self-Focus Sentence Completion Test.
(18) Giles Swayne London • "Intelligent" Boris Johnson commits the age-old folly of mistaking good fortune, selfishness, narcissism and aggression for intelligence, but unwittingly demonstrates the wrongness of his position.
(19) Narcissism has been a perennial topic for psychoanalytic papers since Freud's 'On narcissism: An introduction' (1914).
(20) Instead, her defences were overwhelmed by a frenzy of blogging, narcissism and sniping from the worldwide web.