As people are socialized, egocentricity partly evolves into sociocentricity. Egocentric tendencies extend to their groups. To put this another way, people find that they can often best satisfy their egocentric desires through a group. Uncritical thinkers often confuse loyalty with always supporting and agreeing, even when the other person or the group is wrong. If egocentricity and sociocentricity are the disease, self-awareness is the cure.
People can often recognize when someone else is egocentric.
Most of us can identify the sociocentricity of members of opposing groups. Our belief in our own rightness is easier to maintain because we ignore the faults in our thinking. We automatically hide our egocentricity from ourselves. We fail to notice when our behavior contradicts our self-image. We base our reasoning on false assumptions we are unaware of making.