The Tendency to Blame Ourselves for Our Failures and to Downplay

question 165

True/False

The tendency to blame ourselves for our failures and to downplay our successes by attributing them to external, situational causes is called the self-effacing bias.

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Definitions:

Defamation

A wrongful act of communicating false statements about a person that injure the person's reputation or good name.

Actual Malice

In defamation, either a person's knowledge that his or her statement or published material is false or the person's reckless disregard for whether it is false.

Nominal Damages

A small sum awarded to a plaintiff in a lawsuit when a legal wrong has occurred, but no actual monetary loss was sustained or proven.

Tort

A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.