Both Piaget and Elkind recognize that egocentrism applies to all developmental stages from infancy to childhood, to adolescence to adulthood and beyond.
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However at each developmental stage, egocentrism manifests its characteristics in different ways, depending on the end goals of that particular stage.
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Egocentrism can be seen in an experiment performed by Piaget and Swiss developmental psychologist B�rbel Inhelder, known as the three-mountain problem.
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Frankenberger tested adolescents ( 14 18 years old ) and adults ( 20 89 ) on their levels of egocentrism and self-consciousness.
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Support for the hypothesis that egocentrism, and the personality fable more specifically, predict risk-taking behaviours is considerable in North America.
