How do we maintain ambition while cultivating calm? When to push, and when to sit back? Overall, the general consensus among sports...

All of this seems fairly obvious, but what is actually going on? It turns out there's quite a bit of research in cognitive psychology to support a phenomenon that has a few names—partisan perception, ingroup bias, hostile attribution bias, naïve realism, self-serving bias, and motivated reasoning are all part of this broader family.