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What does allocentric mean?

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Adjective
  1. Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
  2. Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on the external environment and independent of one's current location in it. For example, giving the direction as "north" as opposed to "right" (egocentric).
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Allocentric and idiocentric personality orientations can be found in either collectivistic or individualistic cultures.
They found a mere ownership effect in idiocentric participants and a group ownership effect for allocentric participants.
This is called an allocentric view of the world, as opposed to the egocentric view.
So I made the suggestion that at some point in evolution this system turned back and allowed you to create an allocentric view of yourself.
These remarks would seem to imply a shift for the nurse from autocentric controlling, to allocentric controlling, then to allocentric nurturing.
At least two of the three reflective practitioners were clearly idiocentric, whereas all of the social syncretists seemed to fit the allocentric description.

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