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allocentric

allocentric

1. adj. denoting interest in or focus on other people or objects rather than the self. Compare autocentric.

2. n. an individual who is dispositionally predisposed to put the goals and needs of the group above his or her own. Compare idiocentric. See also sociocentrism. —allocentrism n.

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