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deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 01:13 AM Nov 2012

Egocentric Tendencies

The Human Mind Is Naturally Prone
To the Following Egocentric Tendencies

egocentric memory (the natural tendency to "forget" evidence and information which does not support our thinking and to "remember" evidence and information which does)

egocentric myopia (the natural tendency to think in an absolutist way within an overly narrow point of view)

egocentric infallibility (the natural tendency to think that our beliefs are true because we believe them)

egocentric righteousness (the natural tendency to feel superior in the light of our confidence that we are in the possession of THE TRUTH)

egocentric hypocrisy (the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what we profess to believe and the actual beliefs our behavior imply, or inconsistencies between the standards to which we hold ourselves and those to which we expect others to adhere)

egocentric oversimplification (the natural tendency to ignore real and important complexities in the world in favor of simplistic notions when consideration of those complexities would require us to modify our beliefs or values)

egocentric blindness (the natural tendency not to notice facts or evidence which contradict our favored beliefs or values)

egocentric immediacy (the natural tendency to over-generalize immediate feelings and experiences--so that when one event in our life is highly favorable or unfavorable, all of life seems favorable or unfavorable as well)

egocentric absurdity (the natural tendency to fail to notice thinking which has "absurd" consequences, when noticing them would force us to rethink our position)
Taken from The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/natural-egocentric-dispositions/503


Does any of this sound familiar? I'm tempted to make bingo cards.
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Egocentric Tendencies (Original Post) deucemagnet Nov 2012 OP
Before I admit anything, I have to know this is protected by the seal of the confessional. n/t dimbear Nov 2012 #1
Don't worry, the RCC will protect you. nt mr blur Nov 2012 #2
I think that I do all those things too. Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #3
I agree that we all do it on some level, deucemagnet Nov 2012 #4
Oh, that is the truth. Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #5
I think we are all guilty of those at some time or another. Odin2005 Nov 2012 #6

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. I think that I do all those things too.
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:00 PM
Nov 2012

At least on some level. This does fit all of us.....not just about religion.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
4. I agree that we all do it on some level,
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:50 PM
Nov 2012

but I also think that many of the religious lack the intellectual honesty to admit that they hold these biases in respect to their religious beliefs.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
5. Oh, that is the truth.
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:28 PM
Nov 2012

I know that, I have seen that behavior. It frustrates the hell out of me.

Oh, sorry, I'm not allowed to talk about hell, since I don't believe in it.

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