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self perception
You take personal credit for wins but blame external luck.
The self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute success to your internal character and failure to your environment.
When you succeed at a task, you view it as evidence of your ability. When you fail at the same task, you view it as a momentary error caused by the situation.
You are a master of creating narratives that protect your self-image.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Miller and Ross (1975)
- What the check found
- The definition is accurate, and the attribution to the 1975 Miller and Ross paper is correct, as it is the seminal review that popularized the synthesis of these findings.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
Related
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