Egocentrism - Science topic

Your suggestions helped a lot with knowledge acquisition in general and theory crafting, thanks again!

I chose to measure the mentioned constructs directly by generating items by myself and forming a scale, but, as this was my bachelor thesis, i needed to keep it very parsimonious, because experimental induction and other measures already took up much time and space. Therefore, I also had no chance to pilot test and validate my scale. It could be that it´s just measuring mindfulness - currently I´m analysing and arguing based on the theoretical foundation of my item construction and the results.

Overall, I expected way more but the results are not at all completely disappointing. A major problem that emerges is that my sample consists mostly of psychology students (who would have thought it), which is evidently limiting variance of my independent variable(s). I will, however, continue researching with the same or slightly altered experimental framework and design within the scope of my work at the chair and keep you up to date. Probably, I create a project here after my current obligations are overcome.

Greetings and stay healthy!

The ego is not a disease but the (exessive) centrism is a plant which grows in the breeding ground of a god separated mind-set. The blossoms of that plant may be different in differnt people and/or gender. A typical male 'pathology' (blossom) is the narcism and a typical female is the hysterics. But men can be hysteric and women can be narcistic...

Background:

Fear is the leading consequence of a god averting mind-set. Fear to have not enough (love, friends, health etc). Because averted from the light we see shadow and believe that this is reality. In the shadow (the dualistic world-view) we are vulnerable for the diabolic (seperating) influences. One of the first influencing factors in mankind is the separation of man and woman. This seperation allways helped the leaders (religions) to direct mankind. The seperation was useful to condamn sexuality and to fuel serveral fears around male/female -theme...

So ego-stabilizing strategies were also seperated (different) according to the differnt socio-cultural circumstances.

In earlier days the seperation of man and woman was clearer and the differences in reactive ego-stabilizing (because of fear to loose ego...because of feeling beeing disconnected to god) mechanisms were more uncovered like today.

However, men tend to dominate the other gender by cognitive and/or physical manipulation and women tend to dominate the other gender by emotional manipulation and sexuality. Both gender do this because of the learned mechanism that these strategies are helpful, give security and feed the ego. The illness of "manipulation the surroundings" occurs because of the "virus" called fear. And our immune-system is vulnerable for that virus because of our feeling of beeing allone, disconnected to god. Therefore man and women play their games in the drama of dualistic worldview triggered by socio-evolutional factors: Women were often dependent to men in nutrition, goods/wares, matereialistic stuff and men were often dependent to women in sexuality because of their animal/sexual instinct. This game is very old and still working today. Nowaday we have a lot of reactive streams like feminism, gender-politics and many more which are not a solution but rather more separation-feeding because the core (fear) is still feeded in this way! Just another game.

So we Need more harmony and the understanding that in every yin is a yang and vice versa. We are differnt genders and have therefore different acces to male or female forces which complement each other. In hermetic traditions the symbol of male is the triangle with the apex above and the symbol of female is the triangle with the apex below (like venus-hill) which remind to the male force to the sky and the female force to the ground (earth). Both symbols united results in one of the oldest general symbols of power: the Hexagramm.

So exessive ego os a "disease" of both gender. The way out of the drama is Devotion, Humor and at first friendly contact with our ego. Say "...hello ego, thank you for directing untill today, you helped me very much. But hence I am the leader. You may retire and feel well, now we both go with god and 'his/her' will :-)…"

Thanks Dr. Karl for your reply.

I have an article coming soon will happy to share it with you

Your query reminded me of an excellent article I read some time ago: Previc's "The Neuropsychology of 3D Space" I found a copy & am attaching it. This will at least help you to frame your thinking.

I'm no expert in this area, but it seems like the literature on left hemi-inattention contains much that is relevant.

Jorg Lewald of Ruhr University has done some work on exactly what you're asking about; he is on ResearchGate, so maybe you should contact him directly? The same is true of Elisabetta Ladavas of the U. of Boulogne.