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Egotism is defined as the drive to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself and generally features an inflated opinion of one's personal features...

Implicit egotism is the hypothesis that humans have an unconscious preference for things they associate with themselves. In a 2002 paper, psychologists...

anyone who questions the individual's self-worth, an example of threatened egotism. The Journal of Educational Psychology conducted a study in which they...

"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1843 in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in New...

been challenged. One explanation for nominative determinism is implicit egotism, which states that humans have an unconscious preference for things they...

last of the 20th century's great dictators, but not the least in terms of egotism, or cruelty, or morbid will to power." Saddam's regime brought about the...

scholastic ignorance, gross neglect of non-British culture, an astounding egotism, and an undisguised contempt for American progress". Amos Urban Shirk,...

In studies performed to test the effect of implicit egotism it has been shown that implicit egotism does in fact play a significant role in processes that...

term 'vain imaginings'. Philosophically, vanity may be a broader form of egotism and pride. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "vanity is the fear of appearing...

762. PMID 16834504. Bushman BJ, Baumeister RF (July 1998). "Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression: does self-love...

predominantly young teen males. In his book The Curse of the Self: Self-Awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life, author Daniel Walker explains how a great...

representing a human moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other...

also distrusted free-market capitalism for being unreliable due to its egotism and preferred a state-directed economy that maintains private property...

(May 1842) "The Birth-Mark" (March 1843) "The Celestial Railroad" (1843) "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843) "Earth's Holocaust" (1844) "Rappaccini's...

character, including 'angst, aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex [and] sentimentality'". Those present were shocked...

The stories in the book are: "The Repairer of Reputations" – a story of egotism and paranoia which carries the imagery of the book's title. "The Mask"...

measured: usually it was economic well-being. In Chernyshevsky's rational egotism [sic], utlitarianism as a method coincided with socialism as a goal: in...

fear into his abusive father; Athena replaces Sparks after noticing his egotism amidst their dismantlement of the previous gang, and she later witnesses...

Socialism." Hitler distrusted capitalism for being unreliable due to its egotism, and he preferred a state-directed economy that is subordinated to the...

excellence," and Meher Baba called it "the specific feeling through which egotism manifests." Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride...