Egocentric goals also meant individuals competed for resources, which undermined the group as a whole.
Others blame the look-at-me-I'm-so-special culture bred by egocentric social networking sites such as Facebook, My Space, and Twitter.
We all get to have our lessons if we can be that egocentric.
Based on experiments such as these, de Waal came to believe that the sense of fairness observed in monkeys is egocentric.
Steve Jobs' apology style was egocentric, at least insofar as it was a personal expression comfortably centered in the first person.
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Welch gets Croesus' "worst game blamer" award for the week by unnecessarily sticking it to his successor in a very public, quite undignified and highly egocentric manner.
Mild-mannered and sensitive, but egocentric and neurotic too, he achieved the status of a sage in public but led a private life which was in many ways pathetic.
Like my view of Jeff as self-serving, egocentric and self-satisfied.
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"He doesn't have a pretentious or egocentric bone in his body, " said Steve Nelson, the head of The Calhoun School, a private institution Karp attended until the eighth grade.
Feeney never slaps his name on a library or hospital, since he can collect additional money for the project from more egocentric tycoons who gladly pay millions for the privilege.
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Bumptious, boasting and egocentric, he didn't age 40 years between part one and part two, or persuade us of all the exotic, dubious things he had supposedly done during those years.
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He seems too self-serving or egocentric or self-satisfied.
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