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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Being Successful And Self-Serving By Checking Your Bias. ByRajshree Agarwal, Former Contributor. ... “If an important team decision could be viewed (or is in truth) self-serving, ...