Abstract

Errors in the Person-perception indicate social conflicts. One of these errors is the social-egocentrism indentifing a role as an individual. This study investigates the effects of the social-egocentrism on social conflicts in two aspects. First, because the social-egocentrism makes people unknow that other's assertions come from their particular roles, people perceive that their assertions cannot be compatible with other's assertions. Therefore, they tend to resolve conflicts by win-loss method based on zero-sum game. Second, because the social-egocentrism makes people perceive the behavior based on the role as the behavior based on an individual, it makes people misperceive the conflict between the roles as the conflict between individuals. So the aggresiveness toward others is increased and the conflict gets worse. Empirical data about these hopothesis from the social -egocentrism is examined throuth the author and his colleagues' experiments.