At a General Level, What Is the Self-Serving Attributional Bias

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Multiple Choice

At a general level, what is the self-serving attributional bias?

• A) the tendency to make internal attributions for one's own behavior, and external attributions for the behavior of others
• B) the tendency to make external attributions for one's own behavior, and internal attributions for the behavior of others
• C) the tendency to make external attributions for bad things one does, and internal attributions for good things one does
• D) the tendency to make internal attributions for bad things one does, and external attributions for good things one does

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