Taking Personal Credit for Successes and Blaming External Forces for Our

question 19

Multiple Choice

Taking personal credit for successes and blaming external forces for our failures is called the

• A) actor-observer difference.
• B) self-serving bias.
• C) correspondence bias.
• D) fundamental attribution error.

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Definitions:

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