Methods in Behavioral Research: Egocentrism

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This paper presents the outline for a proposed research project assessing the relative attitudes of young men (adolescent males) to young women (adolescent females). The paper notes that there is evidence that young men tend to be greater risk takers than young women but notes also that the literature is not unanimous in this respect. In any case, the paper offers a brief literature review, a brief outline of the proposed questionnaire employing the highly-regarded Lapley model, and concludes by noting the expected conclusions.

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"Egocentrism is understood to be the inability to see the world in terms that are different from one's own. In the initial proposal to this research paper the writer expressed a desire to examine the comparative levels of egocentrism in children raised in single-child homes versus children raised in multi-child homes. In particular, although it was not explicitly laid out in the proposal as it should have been, the researcher was intent upon examining the relative extent to which a young person raised in a single-child home was more likely than a young person raised in a multi-child home to indulge in "personal fable construction" - that is to say, to indulge in the view that his or her experiences were uniquely different from the experiences of others. "

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