Which of the following best describes self-serving bias?

a) It refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors.
b) It refers to the tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality.
c) It refers to bias toward inferences about a person's disposition even in the presence of very obvious situational constraints.
d) It refers to the tendency to view the world through one's own cultural filters.


a

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