ego-involved

The personal lesson from practicing science is that it is always better to not be ego-involved in the outcome.

Greene: I am not, nor have I ever been a member of a data-mining discipline « Climate Audit 2006

Meanings and ideas in which one is ego-involved are at stake in anxiety, and a threat to these creates goal incongruence.

Handbook of Stress Leo Goldberger 1993

Having possessed and even defended these views, I had become ego-involved.

Draft Resistance Rader, Gary 1967

Johnson’s announcement in 1968 that he would not seek reelection to the presidency, and President Nixon’s resignation in 1974—and found that, by these measures, “Palin is more ego-involved than LBJ, but less than Nixon.”

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Johnson’s announcement in 1968 that he would not seek reelection to the presidency, and President Nixon’s resignation in 1974—and found that, by these measures, “Palin is more ego-involved than LBJ, but less than Nixon.”

Self-reference and narcissism 2009