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Self-serving bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A self-serving bias occurs when people attribute their successes to internal or personal factors but attribute their failures to situational factors beyond their control. The self-serving bias can b...
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In one experiment, the participant performed the task in cooperation with another individual, and in the other experiment, the participant was in ... Campbell, W. Keith, & Sedikides, Constantine (1999). Self-Threat Magnifies the Self-Serving Bias: A Meta-Analytic Integration. Review of General Psychology. 3, 23-43.
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Then, some background explanation for a hypothetical experiment is presented. Finally, each of the nine threats ... In-class demonstration of the self-serving bias - adapted from Dana Dunn's article "Demonstrating a self-serving bias" (accompanies Psychology: An Introduction, 10/e by Morris and Maisto) [added 9/4/02]
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In one experiment which assigned participants to either the plaintiff or defendant in a hypothetical automotive accident tort case with a maximum potential damages payment of $100,000, ... The original article was at Self-serving bias. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki,
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For three decades there has been research controversy over the self-serving bias in educational settings--the tendency for teachers and students to attribute success to internal factors and failure to external factors. ... Imagine that you are in an educational psychology experiment. You are paired with another...
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The third case study I looked at was the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, which took place in the early 1970s. Researcher Philip Zimbardo constructed a model prison in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Department, and got a group of students to play the roles of prison guards and prisoners.
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Research has shown that individuals' causal attributions are affected by the degree of public scrutiny of their behavior (Bradley, 1978). An experiment was conducted to test a self-presentational explanation of this finding.
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The most ironic example of the self-serving bias that I've ever heard appeared in a social psychology paper written by one of Kelton's students. After the self ... My favorite is an experiment performed at a University where all but one copy machine was shut down causing long lines to form at the only functional one.
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This study reports an experiment that was conducted to reexamine self-serving bias for success and failure among Japanese participants. Previous research has generally failed to find ... On Pancultural Self-Enhancement: Well-Adjusted Taiwanese Self-Enhance on Personally Valued Traits; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,
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Professor Prentice examines the self-serving bias by surveying the literature from psychology, decision theory, behavioral finance, and behavioral economics, and examines its operation in relevant analogous fields, such as law, medicine, and investment banking.
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