When people judge others, they tend to emphasize internal personality factors over external situational causes. But when analyzing our own behavior, an individual tends to emphasize internal personal traits for our successes, and to give external environmental attributions for their failures. This is known as ________________________.

  1. Compensating
  2. Truth
  3. Self-Serving Bias
  4. Being different
Explanation

Answer - C - The Self-Serving Bias works this way: if we do well on an exam, we tend to think/say “I really studied” or “I’m pretty smart,” but if we fail or do poorly on the exam, we tend to blame the instructor, the textbook, or the ‘tricky’ questions.

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