Medically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhDMedically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhD People with a self-serving bias tend to attribute their accomplishments or the good things that happen to them to their ...

The self-serving bias is defined as people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Self-serving bias (otherwise known as self-serving attribution bias, or SAB) would seem to arise quite naturally from this bias to the positive.

Although he didn’t say it directly, my friend implied that being self-serving—real or perceived—jeopardizes the team mission or reduces opportunities for others to succeed.

Advertisement opinion Commentary Trump’s self-serving bias is an ethical question President-elect Donald Trump has spent his adult life creating and operating a vast business empire.

For example, self-serving bias could persuade a student that they earned a good test score solely because of their intelligence and their strong work ethic that drove them to study hard.

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The First Study: Self-Serving Bias In our first study, we used Qualtrics to survey a sample of 433 employees from a wide range of organizations (for-profit companies, non-profit organizations ...

President-elect Donald Trump has spent his adult life creating and operating a vast business empire. Some believe this makes him uniquely qualified to run the country, but it also creates unique ...