You're Competing in a Tennis Championship and You Lose in a Final-Set

question 5

True/False

You're competing in a tennis championship and you lose in a final-set tie-breaker. You attribute your loss to bad officiating and distractions from crowd noise, not to your opponent's superior skill. This is an example of the self-serving bias.

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