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 ...

A self-serving bias is the common habit of a person taking credit for positive events or outcomes, but blaming outside factors for negative events. This can be affected by age, culture, clinical ...

Signs and Examples of the Self-Serving Bias . Identifying the self-serving bias is pretty straightforward. Usually, people who engage in the self-serving bias easily share their successes and how ...

Depression and the Self-Serving Bias. Sometimes when people are depressed or have low self-esteem, their attribution style is flipped. They attribute positive events to chance or external help, ...

Self-serving bias means you have a tendency to take personal responsibility for positive events, but not negative ones. This kind of thinking helps boost your self-esteem and protects you from ...

Self-serving bias can distort one’s perception of their actual knowledge and abilities, leading to overconfidence and potentially to poor decision making.

On a slightly more positive note Andy Kim in Self-Serving Attribution Bias and CEO Turnover suggests that CEO’s with bad cases of self-serving attribution bias are more likely to get fired.

According to the American Psychological Association, self-serving bias is the tendency to interpret events in a way that assigns credit for success to oneself but denies one’s responsibility on ...