Actually one of my cousins happens to be a psychology major specializing in sports psychology. We’ve talked about fighting games along those lines a couple of times. Maybe i should ask him if he’d be interested in writing a psych article too.

Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

1. tend to overestimate their own level of skill;
2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_kruger_effect

For example, I think mentioning the 4 stages of learning/competence is the best way to understand how learning ANYTHING works including street fighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

First Stage
1. Unconscious incompetence – You start to ride a bike but don’t realize how terrible you are until you fall off and get hurt 2 seconds after getting on.
2. Conscious incompetence -The stage where you realize how terrible you are at riding the bike
3. Conscious Competence- Now you know how to ride the bike but it takes a great deal of effort to stay on
4.Unconscious competence- your skills at riding the bike have greatly improved to the point where it has become muscle memory. You don’t need to think about what you’re doing anymore.

I don’t know, i’ll try to get something figured out.