The Tendency to Blame Oneself for One's Failures, Attributing Them

question 341

Multiple Choice

The tendency to blame oneself for one's failures, attributing them to internal, personal causes, while downplaying one's successes by attributing them to external, situational causes, is called:

• A) the self-serving bias.
• B) the fundamental attribution bias.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) the self-effacing, or modesty, bias.

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