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bias
You take the credit and blame the world.
A 1975 study by Miller and Ross examined the self-serving bias, questioning whether the attribution of success to internal factors and failure to external ones is a defense mechanism or a byproduct of information processing.
The study was titled 'Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction?' and challenged the prevailing assumption that these attributions are exclusively ego-protective.
You are the hero of your own story and the victim of your own surroundings.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Miller and Ross, 1975
- What the check found
- While the study is the definitive citation for the topic, it argued that the bias was not solely a defensive ego-protection mechanism, but could be explained by information-processing asymmetries.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.