In the field of addictions, the changes believed to be effective by health professionals are usually those founded on programs based on the idea of control. However, control has its own limitations, and failures. Some failures in treating addiction appear to start a transformation of experience, be it personal or regarding the therapeutic relationship. A typical example of failure and transform...

In this study, we examined the construct of the imaginary audience (Elkind & Bowen, 1979), presumably a precipitant of adolescent egocentrism, as it relates to public individuation and self-consciousness. We hypothesized that the imaginary audience inhibits public individuation and represents a critical form of public self-consciousness. We also argued that the imaginary audience is a normal as...

Consensus bias is the overuse of self-related knowledge in estimating the prevalence of attributes in a population. The bias seems statistically appropriate (Dawes, 1989), but according to the egocentrism hypothesis, it merely mimics normative inductive reasoning. In Experiment 1, Ss made population estimates for agreement with each of 40 personality inventory statements. Even Ss who had been e...

The problem of poverty in Indonesia is still unresolved to date. Related the poverty, ideas emerge an effort alleviate that focuses on empowerment, entrepreneurship and deacons. These three thought can lead dangers, including: empowerment trigger spirit capitalism which greed high egocentrism. Whereas deacons make people keep silent without move out poverty. So concepts alleviation do not fall ...

The historiographical debate about France during the Second World War has long been dominated by two foreign historians. On one hand, Israeli intellectual Zeev Sternhell notoriously placed origin of fascism in France's Belle Epoque and saw Vichy as paradigmatic example a fascist regime his book, Neither Right nor Left , four decades ago. Year after year, Sternhell, who had studied Paris, made c...