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psychology
You claim your successes but blame the environment for failures.
The self-serving bias describes the pattern of attributing success to internal causes and failure to external causes, though it remains debated whether this is driven by ego-protection or neutral information processing expectancies.
The claim treats the 'ego-protection' motive as a settled fact of the theory, whereas the seminal 1975 paper by Miller and Ross was written to contest that specific motivational interpretation.
You are rarely as responsible for your failures as you are for your wins.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Miller and Ross, 1975, Psychological Bulletin
- What the check found
- While the phenomenon is real, the attribution of it to ego-protection is the very hypothesis Miller and Ross questioned in the cited paper.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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