The Tendency to Explain Favourably the Behaviours of Members of Groups

question 300

Multiple Choice

The tendency to explain favourably the behaviours of members of groups to which we belong is known as:

• A) self-serving bias.
• B) ethnocentrism.
• C) group-serving bias.
• D) just-world hypothesis.

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