Egocentric bias (memory)

Biological Parallel

Pack hunters overestimate their contribution to group kills—self-referential memory is more vividly encoded because your actions predict your future rewards better than others' actions do. The brain prioritizes first-person experience over observed events because 'what I did' matters more for learning what to do next. Egocentric bias is adaptive self-focus: memory evolved to improve your predictions, not provide objective history.