“At every single stage [of information processing] — from its biased arrival, to its biased encoding, to organizing it around false logic, to misremembering and then misrepresenting it to others — the mind continually acts to distort information flow in favor of the usual good goal of appearing better than one really is.”

— Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life