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Unit 9 – Social Psychology
Topic 9.1
In psychology, what is meant by 'self-serving bias'?
It's the tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal characteristics and failures to environmental factors.
It is a bias where individuals remember unsuccessful events more vividly than successful events in order to learn from mistakes.
It's our inclination to consider ourselves superior than others in various aspects.
It's our propensity for attributing failures of others to their character flaws while attributing their success to luck or external influences.
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